Year-on-year sales growth at designated-size retailers; %, 2025 prelim.
China’s designated-size retail enterprises reported different sales growth across five store formats in 2025. Convenience stores led with 5.5% growth, followed by supermarkets at 4.3%. Department stores were nearly flat at 0.1%, while brand stores declined 0.6%. The spread between the fastest and slowest formats was 6.1 percentage points.
| Rank | Entry | Value | Period |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Convenience stores | +5.5% | 2025 |
| 2 | Supermarkets | +4.3% | 2025 |
| 3 | Specialty stores | +2.6% | 2025 |
| 4 | Department stores | +0.1% | 2025 |
| 5 | Brand stores | -0.6% | 2025 |
Publisher: National Bureau of Statistics of China
Dataset/table: Retail Sales Growth by Store Format, 2025
Units: percent
Date checked: 2026-07-18
Evidence: Supports the five store-format retail-sales growth rates used in this brief.
The reporting universe covers retail enterprises above the designated size, not every retail business in China.
The five published store-format rates are ordered from highest to lowest while preserving the negative brand-store value.
All five rates use one official release, the 2025 period and the same year-on-year percentage basis.
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