The 8-day National Day holiday that coincides with the Mid-Autumn Festival generated incessant flow of tourists with retail sales totaling 7.15 billion yuan in Jiangsu, up 7.5% year on year and 12.3% from 2019, according to the monitoring and preliminary statistics of the Provincial Department of Commerce.
Nanjing Mix World, a primary destination of cuisine choices with numerous star-rated restaurants, introduced a series of Nanjing and Jiangsu cuisine first stores during the National Day holiday, attracting numerous tourists and citizens, with a single day passenger flow reaching a new high.
“I followed my friend from Beijing to Nanjing for a trip, and I specifically came to this popular restaurant for a meal. I waited in line for about twenty minutes, but I didn't expect so many people to be there on the last day of the long holiday, ” said a tourist.
“During the holiday, the per capita consumption of customers increased from over 200 yuan to over 300 yuan, and the passenger flow increased by about 20% to 30% compared to the weekends. Now we can feel that everyone has higher demand for high-quality catering,” said Zhu Tao, Manager of First Store of Steak House.
The constantly refreshing calls in restaurants and the surging crowds in business circles have become a microcosm of the hot holiday consumption.
During holidays, Jiangsu carried out various forms of consumption promotion activities by distributing consumption vouchers and digital RMB red envelopes, bringing various consumption experiences to citizens and tourists.
Wuxi is fully committed to creating a gourmet and shopping paradise in a bid to actively boost market vitality. Focusing on the first store economy, stores and supermarkets in Suzhou unleashed strong consumer vitality. Yangzhou launched a series of consumer promotion activities during the holiday, with 20 supermarkets recording sales of approximately 450 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 12.2%.
“During the holiday, our store recorded a daily passenger flow of over 60000 people and a daily sale of over 6 million yuan, an increase of over 10% from last year,” said Long Yan, General Manager of Wanda Plaza, Hanjiang District, Yangzhou.
September and October are usually the traditional peak seasons for sales of commodities such as automobiles, home appliances, and home furnishings.
Jiangsu has fully utilized consumption subsidies, and exhibition promotions to promote the holiday consumer market by holding a series of car shows, distributing new energy vehicle coupons, boosting the vitality of the automotive market, launching green and energy-saving home appliance consumption promotion activities, and providing government subsidies to consumers who purchase green and energy-saving home appliances so as to stimulate the home appliance market.
“We sell hundreds of washing and drying machines every day, with a significant year-on-year increase. Among the 13 categories of products, we have more than 1300 that comply with energy-saving subsidy policies, which has attracted a lot of popularity for us. The sales of home appliances have increased by more than 30% year-on-year,” said Huang Longhua, Deputy General Manager of Home Appliance Plaza at Suzhou People's Mall.
