{"id":30492,"date":"2019-01-25T05:22:15","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T05:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30492"},"modified":"2019-01-25T05:22:15","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T05:22:15","slug":"chinas-about-to-overtake-the-us-as-the-worlds-biggest-retail-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30492","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s about to overtake the US as the world&#8217;s biggest retail market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Hong Kong (CNN Business)<\/cite>China&#8217;s economy may be slowing down, but the country is still set to eclipse the United States as the world&#8217;s top retail market for the first time.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Retail sales in China will reach more than $5.6 trillion this year, about $100 billion more than in the United States, according to a report published Wednesday by research firm eMarketer.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/11\/03\/asia\/china-leeks-economy-trade-war-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Chinese population&#8217;s growing wealth<\/a> and the rapid development of e-commerce have driven the country&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/10\/04\/business\/china-economy-luxury-brands\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">epic retail boom<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong (CNN Business)China&#8217;s economy may be slowing down, but the country is still set to eclipse the United States as the world&#8217;s top retail market for the first time.Retail sales in China will reach more than $5.6 trillion this year, about $100 billion more than in the United States, according to a report published&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":30493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}