BEIJING — China's consumer market remained buoyant during the three-day New Year holiday, with the average daily sales of key retail enterprises up 6.2 percent year-on-year, the Ministry of Commerce said on Jan 4.

Key retail enterprises saw sales of food, clothes, home appliances and digital products, as well as jewelry rise by 3.5 percent, 22.8 percent, 9.9 percent and 10.3 percent, respectively.

Sales at seven duty-free stores in the southernmost Hainan province soared 213 percent from a year earlier.

Service consumption also picked up during the period, with takeout transactions jumping 17 percent year-on-year in Beijing, the ministry said.