China: business outlook under COVID-19 by selected market 2020

The expected impact on business development in industries varied significantly during the outbreak of COVID-19 in China. Whereas in online service industries the outlook was positive, offline businesses had a mostly negative outlook on development during that initial period. However, the graph shows that after the pandemic offline industries expected recovery and online services anticipated a decline in growth. After all, in all surveyed industries the participants expected an overall negative impact of COVID-19 on their business.

Business outlook under the impact of COVID-19 in China as of February 2020, by selected market

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Release date

March 2020

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Region

China

Survey time period

February 17, 2020

Number of respondents

1,889 respondents

Special properties

enterprises

Method of interview

Online survey

Supplementary notes

The data behind the index in this graph is a comparison with user consumption behavior in 2019. The index range is one to negative one. A value of zero indicates no difference to 2019. The higher the value, the higher the growth expectations.

The period of the outbreak was January 20 to February 17.

The end of the outbreak was defined as "the number of confirmed diagnosis is 0".

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