China's wholesale, retail sectors achieve steady growth in first three quarters


BEIJING, Oct. 27 (Xinhua) -- China's wholesale and retail sectors posted solid growth in the first nine months of 2025, providing sound support for expanding domestic demand in the country, the commerce ministry said on Monday.

From January to September, the added value of China's wholesale and retail trade grew by 5.6 percent from a year earlier to reach 10.5 trillion yuan (about 1.48 trillion U.S. dollars), which accounted for 10.3 percent of the country's gross domestic product, said an official with the ministry, quoting data from the National Bureau of Statistics.

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