Online retail sales in China's rural areas rose 8.8 percent year-on-year in the first quarter of the year, official data shows.Rural online retail sales totaled 523.34 billion yuan ($75.72 billion) in the period, with growth 3.4 percentage points higher than in the same period of 2022, according to
China, the world's second-largest economy, is actively embracing the burgeoning e-commerce sector, generating 4.82 trillion yuan ($683 billion) in online retail sales during the first six months of this year.Online retail sales surged 17.8 percent year-on-year in the first half, accounting for nearl