BEIJING : China's consumer market recovery was"strong" in January, the commerce ministry said on Thursday, in one of its first optimistic assessments of consumption, which until this year had been reined in by a weak economy and tough COVID-19 policies.
China's 3 per cent economic growth rate last year was one of its weakest rates in nearly half a century，hurt by harsh COVID-19 curbs that were abruptly lifted in December.
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