Consumption continues to grow in rural China: ministry

　　China's rural areas continued to unleash consumption potential, while fixed-asset investment in the primary industry saw a bigger decline, said the country's agricultural ministry.

　　In the first five months of 2019, the retail sales in rural areas nationwide totaled 2.34 trillion yuan (about 339.6 billion U.S. dollars), according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.

　　The reading, up 8.9 percent year on year, was 0.9 percentage points higher than the growth rate of the retail sales in urban areas, according to the ministry.

　　Rural e-commerce sustained its growth momentum, with sales of food reporting a 24-percent growth year on year in May, according to the big data platform of Taobao, China's e-commerce giant.

　　Meanwhile, the fixed-asset investment in the primary industry came in at 583.7 billion yuan, down 2.3 percent year on year.

　　The decline expanded by 2.2 percentage points than that of the January-April period, the ministry said.

　　本文重点词汇

　　consumption消耗，消耗量; 消费; 肺病; 肺痨; 肺结核

　　continues持续; 继续存在; 不断发生; 继续做; 不停地干; 走，移动; 延伸; continue的第三人称单数

　　grow in向里长; 重新长出; 在…中长大

　　rural乡村的; 农村的; 似农村的

　　rural areas农村地区

　　continued继续不变的; 连续不断的; 持续; 继续存在; 不断发生; 继续做; 不停地干; 走，移动; 延伸; continue的过去分词和过去式

　　unleash发泄; 突然释放; 使爆发

　　investment in在…方面投资

　　primary industry第一产业

　　decline减少，下降，衰落，衰退; 减少; 下降; 衰弱; 衰退; 谢绝; 婉言拒绝; 变格，使发生词形变化

　　agricultural农业的; 农用的; 以农业为主的，农业高度发达的

　　nationwide全国性的; 遍及全国的; 全国范围的; 在全国范围内; 就全国而论

　　Ministry of Agriculture农业部

　　affairs公共事务; 政治事务; 事件; 事情; 私通，风流韵事; affair的复数

　　points论点; 观点; 见解; 重点; 要点; 核心问题; 意图; 目的; 理由; 指，指向; 瞄准; 对着; 朝向; point的第三人称单数和复数

　　growth rate生长速度；生长率；增重率；增殖率

　　urban areas城市地区

　　e-commerce同 e-business; 电子商务

　　sustained维持; 使保持; 使稳定持续; 遭受; 蒙受; 经受; sustain的过去分词和过去式

　　growth momentum增长势头

　　reporting新闻报道; 汇报; 报告; 通报; 报道; 公布; 发表; 宣布; 据说，传闻; report的现在分词

　　big data大数据

　　meanwhile同时; 与此同时; 其间; 对比之下; 其时，其间

　　expanded扩大，增加，增强; 扩展，发展; 细谈; 详述; 详细阐明; expand的过去分词和过去式

　　percentage百分率; 百分比; 利润的分成; 提成

　　period一段时间; 时期; 阶段，时代; 纪; 某一时代的; 具有某个时代特征的