CCTV News: At the regular press conference of the Ministry of Commerce held on March 13, the spokesperson said that this year, the "Chinese Food Festival" series of catering consumption promotion activities will be organized to cultivate new hot spots in catering consumption.

In 2024, my country's catering consumption reached 5.57 trillion yuan, accounting for 11.4% of the total retail sales of consumer goods, and it is also the category with the largest proportion.

This year, the Ministry of Commerce will work with relevant departments to carry out the 2025 "Chinese Food Festival" event, with the theme of "Enjoy Chinese Food and Create a Better Life", and launch more than 120 special catering consumption promotion activities, including "Enjoy wonderful events and find Chinese food", "Food with movies", "Chinese Food Market" and other "+ Food" activities, guiding local governments to create a matrix of catering consumption activities in combination with traditional festivals, peak consumption seasons, movie prime time, large-scale events and cultural and sports activities, and cultivate new hot spots for catering consumption. Promote bank payment and settlement institutions to work with Internet e-commerce platforms to link online and offline, launch more preferential and convenient package services such as "catering + movies" and "catering + event" to release consumption potential, guide local governments to expand sub-track tracks such as creative dishes, solar terms, elderly meals, health meals, parent-child meals and cultural themed catering, and launch a batch of special innovative dishes, special themed banquets and first catering stores to increase the supply of high-quality services.