2025 Continued Growth of County-Level Economy

Everyone’s talking about negative economic growth, a sluggish economy, but when you break it down by region, county-level economies are still growing steadily with high growth rates. The data article is gone, but there’s an offline file in the group.

In 2023, the growth rate of total retail sales of consumer goods in counties was 7.82% (National Bureau of Statistics data), 0.62 percentage points higher than the national average, and in 2024, the growth rate of total retail sales of consumer goods in counties was 7.82% (National Bureau of Statistics data), with a growth rate 1.96 percentage points higher than the national average.

In county-level economies, women remain the main drivers, holding things up.

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