Customers shop at a supermarket in Zaozhuang City, east China's Shandong Province, Dec. 9, 2023. [Photo/Xinhua]
The growth pace accelerated from a rise of 7.6 percent registered in October, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).
Total retail sales of consumer goods topped 42.79 trillion yuan (about 6.03 trillion U.S. dollars) in the January-November period, up 7.2 percent from one year earlier, according to the NBS.