Hainan achieves nearly 80 billion yuan in online transactions, year-on-year growth of 16.05% in first quarter of 2021


According to the provincial Department of Commerce, in the first four months of this year, Hainan achieved nearly 80 billion yuan in online transactions which is up 16.05% year on year.

Online retail sales exceeded 27.7 billion yuan, with both physical and service online retail sales growing year on year.

Statistics show that in the first four months, Hainan achieved 79.662 billion yuan in online trading volume, including 51.892 billion yuan in bulk and B2B, and 27.77 billion yuan in online retail sales, up 28.66% year on year.

Physical online retail sales reached 14.167 billion yuan, up 16% year on year, and online service retail sales reached 13.603 billion yuan, up 45.15% year on year.

In addition, Hainan’s rural online retail sales reached 3.916 billion yuan, up 41.07% year on year, and online retail sales for agricultural products reached 4.771 billion yuan, up 24.04% year on year.

From a regional perspective, Haikou achieved a transaction volume of 54.596 billion yuan, Sanya 11.896 billion yuan and Danzhou 514 million yuan.

In terms of online retail sales, online retail sales Haikou achieved 12.436 billion yuan, Sanya 10.172 billion yuan and Wenchang 1.284 billion yuan.

Food health care, 3C digital (computer, communication, and consumer electronics), and beauty care occupy the top three industries for physical online retail

For service-oriented industries, online tourism, online catering and life services ranked in the top three.

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