Comments on: China Retail Sales Gain 22 Percent; Strongest Since 1999 http://www.china-briefing.com/news/2008/05/13/china-retail-sales-gain-22-percent-strongest-since-1999.html Sat, 30 Aug 2008 06:03:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Nick Polimeni http://www.china-briefing.com/news/2008/05/13/china-retail-sales-gain-22-percent-strongest-since-1999.html#comment-12793 Nick Polimeni Tue, 13 May 2008 11:24:52 +0000 http://www.china-briefing.com/news/2008/05/13/china-retail-sales-gain-22-percent-strongest-since-1999.html#comment-12793 How much of the growth is just paying more because of inflation? and How much is due to higher volume of purchases by consumer? Associated Press (http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i_GnchsrOsWq07cOXj7f17XcUnjQD90K6K881) makes the following statement: April's consumer prices rose by 8.5 percent over the same month last year, the National Bureau of Statistics reported. That was a rebound from March's 8.3 percent rate and below February's 8.7 percent... Your numbers cover a period of four months, therefore it becomes difficult to come up with a reasonable correlation. How much of the growth is just paying more because of inflation? and How much is due to higher volume of purchases by consumer?

Associated Press (http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i_GnchsrOsWq07cOXj7f17XcUnjQD90K6K881) makes the following statement:

April’s consumer prices rose by 8.5 percent over the same month last year, the National Bureau of Statistics reported. That was a rebound from March’s 8.3 percent rate and below February’s 8.7 percent…

Your numbers cover a period of four months, therefore it becomes difficult to come up with a reasonable correlation.

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