Caixian News Agency, 11 May, at a briefing on high-quality development research held today, Zhang Guohua, deputy director of the Shanghai Commerce Commission, gave a briefing on the high-quality development of commerce in Shanghai since the beginning of this year. Zhang Guohua said that efforts should be made to restore and expand consumption. We will fully implement various policies and measures to promote consumption. We issued and implemented a number of measures to further promote and expand consumption, innovated and launched "one quarter and six quarters" consumption promotion activities, and the consumer market in Shanghai picked up at an accelerated pace. The total retail sales of consumer goods in the first quarter was 461.1 billion yuan, an increase of 5.2 percent over the same period in 2022 and 1.2 percent over the same period in 2021. According to big data's monitoring of the consumer market, the city's offline consumption totaled 234.278 billion yuan in April, an increase of 86.7 percent.