Online shopping sees a surge in volume in Q2

China saw surging online shopping in the second quarter of the year with transactions totaling 437.13 billion yuan ($70.8 billion), new data showed on Sunday.

The figure was a 24.2 percent quarter-to-quarter increase, and a 45.3 percent year-on-year increase, according to a research report released by iResearch, China's leading Internet industry research company.

According to the National Bureau of Statistics, total retail sales amounted to 6.03 trillion yuan nationwide in the period.