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Chinese auto sales may be booming, but other big-ticket items sure as heck aren’t.

That's another takeaway from the monthly stats bureau (NBS) data published Wednesday.

Year-on-year, aggregate sales of big-ticket items grew 3.1% in December, of which:

Auto sales grew by 4.0%, down from November’s...