According to the website of the Ministry of Commerce on the 30th, the head of the Department of Electronic Commerce of the Ministry of Commerce introduced the development of the online retail market in 2022. In 2022, China's online retail market will grow steadily. According to the National Bureau of Statistics, the national online retail sales in 2022 will reach 13.79 trillion yuan, up 4% year on year. Among them, the online retail sales of physical goods reached 11.96 trillion yuan, up 6.2% year on year, accounting for 27.2% of the total retail sales of social consumer goods. The monitoring of key e-commerce platforms by business big data shows that the national online retail market in 2022 will mainly show the following characteristics: first, the sales of some commodity categories will achieve double-digit growth. Among the 18 categories of monitored commodities, the sales growth of 8 categories of commodities exceeded double digits. Among them, gold, silver, jewelry, tobacco and wine increased by 27.3% and 19.1% respectively year on year. Second, the growth rate in Northeast and Central China is fast. Online retail sales in Northeast and Central China increased by 13.2% and 8.7% respectively year on year, 9.2 and 4.7 percentage points higher than the national growth rate. Online retail sales in the eastern and western regions increased by 3.8% and 3% respectively year on year. Third, the growth of online retail sales of agricultural products is good. The national rural online retail sales reached 2.17 trillion yuan, up 3.6% year on year. Among them, the online retail sales of rural physical goods reached 1.99 trillion yuan, up 4.9% year on year. The online retail sales of agricultural products nationwide reached 531.38 billion yuan, up 9.2% year on year, 6.4 percentage points higher than that in 2021. Fourth, cross-border e-commerce has developed rapidly. According to customs data, China's cross-border e-commerce import and export (including B2B) will be 2.11 trillion yuan in 2022, up 9.8% year on year. Among them, export was 1.55 trillion yuan, up 11.7% year on year, and import was 0.56 trillion yuan, up 4.9% year on year. Fifth, new business forms and models of e-commerce show vitality. Focus on monitoring e-commerce platforms, with more than 120 million live broadcasts, more than 1.1 trillion people watching, more than 95 million live products, and nearly 1.1 million active anchors. The industries and categories of instant retail penetration continue to expand, covering more application scenarios, and accelerating the arrival of everything. (Xinhua News Agency)