CCTV News: January 7th is the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, which is Laba Festival. As the saying goes, "Laba is the New Year after Laba". As the Spring Festival approaches, the New Year atmosphere in the streets and alleys is getting stronger. Markets in various places are opening in a concentrated manner, and a variety of New Year’s goods are ushering in a hot sales period. The New Year’s goods market is booming and the consumption boom is surging.

In the New Year's goods market in Xuejiawan Town, Zhungeer Banner, Ordos City, Inner Mongolia, a strong festive atmosphere comes from the special stalls; in Yuexiu District, Guangzhou, Guangdong, the "New Year's goods street" is decorated with lights and colors, and merchants prepare various New Year's goods, and the steaming "fireworks" exudes a strong New Year's atmosphere.

Hunan Hongxing Agricultural and Sideline Products Market brings together fruits, fresh food and other agricultural and sideline products from 28 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities in China and 21 countries and regions around the world. It has a variety of New Year's products and a variety of specifications and a combination of multi-category New Year's goods, allowing merchants and citizens who come to buy it to enjoy it.

The new year-themed cultural and creative products have made the "New Year's flavor" a new trend, and the new products launched in the field of "food, clothing, housing and transportation" are very popular, injecting new vitality into the consumer market. In Qingyang, Gansu, the Snake Year Element Series Sachets ushered in a hot sale period, with orders increasing by 40% compared with the previous one. Gansu Qingyang sachets have a long history, and sachet embroidery is one of the national intangible cultural heritages.

In Yiwu International Trade City, Zhejiang, buyers can not only audition for traditional hot-selling New Year goods, but also purchase "foreign New Year goods", bringing together nearly 150,000 products from more than 100 countries and regions around the world. Through merchant concessions and millions of consumption coupons, consumers can buy "foreign New Year goods" at a minimum price of 50% off.

The "2025 National Online New Year's Festival" will be held from January 7 to February 5, which is from the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month to the eighth day of the first lunar month. The New Year's Festival will hold special supporting activities around hot spots such as catering shopping, entertainment and tourism. Analysis points out that shopping feasts are in full swing, which not only ignites consumers' year-end shopping enthusiasm, but also becomes an economic warmth during the New Year.

The new year is new, and good news is constantly coming from all fields.

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