China will launch a monthlong campaign to promote consumption in November as part of its efforts to bolster consumer spending, said He Yadong, a spokesman of the Ministry of Commerce on Thursday.
At a press conference held in Beijing, He said that in collaboration with relevant authorities, the ministry will guide cities across China to fully implement the trade-in programs that have been already introduced and will launch the consumption promotion month next month in Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Tianjin and Chongqing.
The event will feature a series of activities promoting shopping, catering, tourism, exhibitions and performances, among others.
The spokesman said that as the "Double Eleven" online shopping festival approaches, the ministry will continue to organize consumption promotion events that balance the supply and demand of the trade-in program, spur the demand for new energy vehicles in counties and towns, and promote Silk Road e-commerce.
"We will also encourage e-commerce platforms to leverage their advantages in effectively connecting supply and demand and linking multiple entities and innovate service scenarios during the 'Double Eleven' online shopping festival, so as to promote better implementation of the trade-in program," said He.
The "Double Eleven" online shopping festival, also known as the Single's Day shopping festival, is a Chinese version of Black Friday when discounts and sales promotions are usually offered for consumers in the month of November.
China to launch monthlong consumption campaign in five big cities
China's domestically developed C919 large passenger aircraft began flight transport service on two new routes on Sunday.
At 11:19 on Sunday, a C919 aircraft smoothly landed at the Shenyang Taoxian International Airport in Shenyang City, the capital of northeast China's Liaoning Province, from Shanghai in east China some 1,000 kilometers away, marking the C919's first commercial flight in northeast China. The airport celebrated the occasion with a water salute.
"The seats are very spacious, and the flight experience is excellent," said a passenger.
"Flying on a homegrown plane feels especially smooth. I took the inaugural C919 flight to Chengdu, and unexpectedly, within a year, more than a dozen routes have been launched. I think the airline operations in our country are particularly impressive," said another passenger.
The other new air route opened on the day for the C919 is the one from northwest China's Xi'an City to south China's Guangzhou City about 1,400 kilometers away.
The Xi'an-Guangzhou service became the third domestic air route operated from Xi'an to use the C919, following China Eastern Airlines' earlier introduction of this aircraft on its Xi'an-Beijing and Xi'an-Shanghai routes. This also means that the Xianyang International Airport in Xi'an has become a major airport in China in terms of flights performed by the C919.
Notably, China Eastern Airlines in January 2025 started using the C919 jetliner for regular flights between Shanghai in east China and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in the country's south -- which is the airline's first scheduled commercial flight service to Hong Kong using the C919.
The C919 is a narrow-body passenger aircraft with a maximum capacity of 192 seats. It is China's first self-developed trunk jetliner, built in accordance with international airworthiness standards and featuring independently registered intellectual property rights.
China initiated the C919 project in 2007, and it was developed by the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, Ltd. (COMAC). The first C919 aircraft rolled off the production line in Shanghai in November 2015.
China's homegrown C919 aircraft begins to serve two new domestic air routes
