Beijing events encourage family spending
People's Daily
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Beijing's Commerce Department will host many parent-child events in shopping malls to boost consumption. (Photo: China Daily)

Beijing launched a monthlong event to promote consumer spending by parents and children on Saturday. The effort involves more than 200 companies and 2,000 stores in the capital whose aim is to meet the needs of families and make the city center into an international consumption focal point.