China's National Bureau of Statistics: April cosmetics retail sales down 2.7% year-on-year - China Report

On the 17th, the National Bureau of Statistics of China announced retail sales, which show the trend of personal consumption. According to data from the National Bureau of Statistics, retail sales in April 2024 increased 2.3% year-on-year to 3.56 trillion yen.
In addition, retail sales from January to April this year totaled 15.6026 trillion former (approximately 336 trillion yen), an increase of 4.1% from the same period last year.
Of these, retail sales of cosmetics in April were 27.8 billion former (about 600 billion yen), down 2.7% from the same month last year, but the total from January to April was 135.7 billion former (2.9 trillion yen).
yen), up 2.1% from the same period last year.