What shopping have you done for the Spring Festival celebration？Do you ever wander through the grocery store and end up spending more than you were budgeting for? Let’s  start to prepare for New Years online.

More Chinese do Spring Festival shopping online

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   As China's traditional Spring Festival is approaching, people go out to purchase（购买） necessities for the New Year. Materials not only include edible oil, rice, flour, chicken, duck, fish and meat, but also fruit, candies and kinds of nuts. What's more, various decorations, new clothes and shoes for the children as well as gifts for the elderly, friends and relatives, are all on the list of purchasing.

   Nowadays, more Chinese are doing their Spring Festival shopping online, especially for imported goods. Business transacted on eBay, a famous website, almost doubled compared（对比） with the same period last year, the paper said. "Traditional Spring Festival shopping mainly focuses on food, but most online consumers prefer luxury goods or imported ones like furs, jewelry and cosmetics," the paper said.

   Online shopping is especially popular with white-collar workers aged between 30 to 44 since they are busy and have more purchasing power, the paper said. "Online buying is convenient（便捷） and more discounts are available," said Zhang Zheng, a foreign-owned insurance company accountant, adding "during holidays shopping centers are always crowded."

   Zhang went online to buy cosmetics from Hong Kong and fashionable clothes from the Republic of Korea as new year gifts for his wife.