Consumption in China continued to boom over the Mother’s Day weekend. According to the    1    (late) data from online retailer Vipshop, the domestic travel market enjoyed another peak during the weekend.as many people took short trips to celebrate Mother’s Day,    2    (carry) forward the May Day holiday momentum (势头).

Consumers, many of     3    are young mothers born in the 1980s and 1990s, traveled    4    (local) or to nearby regions to celebrate the occasion. Over the weekend, women accounted     5     nearly 60 percent of consumers who traveled, according to Tuniu, an online travel agency    6     (base) in Nanjing, Jiangsu province.

Meanwhile, the online retail market benefited as people bought gifts— including flowers, clothes and cosmetics, home appliances and gold jewelry—for their mothers on multiple e-commerce    7    (platform). Flowers such as carnations and Chinese peonies were in high demand. Health product sales recorded     8    nearly tenfold increase year-on-year during the two weeks leading to Mother’s Day     9    consumers paid more attention to keeping healthy in post-pandemic times.

With the Chinese government further encouraging consumer willingness to spend, economic recovery and growth    10    (expect) to continue in the foreseeable future.