With their wallets shrinking, shoppers no longer spent as freely as before, and growth in private sector consumption slid to 8.92 %, the first time in a decade it has fallen below 10 %.
荷包縮水，民眾花起錢來也不復以往的大手大腳，去年民間消費年增率僅有百分之八．九二，是十年來首次跌到百分之十以下，跌幅驚人。