中国社科院财经战略研究院市场流通与消费研究室主任依绍华：线上线下融合加速 餐饮消费助力服务消费发展

Core Viewpoint - The 2025 Beijing Conference on High-Quality Development of the Catering Industry emphasizes the importance of catering consumption as a key driver for domestic demand, highlighting the sector's robust growth and digital transformation efforts in Beijing [4][5]. Group 1: Catering Industry Growth - Service consumption in China is expanding, with catering consumption showing significant performance, becoming a crucial engine for domestic demand [4]. - From January to April, the national service retail sales increased by 5.1% year-on-year, with April's catering revenue growth reaching 5.2%, accelerating by 0.5 percentage points compared to the first quarter [4]. Group 2: Digital Transformation - Beijing's catering industry is experiencing notable digital transformation, with the "internet penetration rate" of key catering enterprises rising to 61.1% [4]. - New business models such as live streaming sales and instant retail are promoting deep integration of online and offline operations [4]. Group 3: Future Consumption Strategies - Recommendations for boosting future consumption include optimizing service supply through new technologies to enhance quality and experience [5]. - There is a call for deeper integration of business, culture, tourism, and sports to create diversified consumption scenarios [5]. - Strengthening county-level layouts and improving rural consumption infrastructure are suggested to activate the county market [5].