03 Pic: Shutterstock Chinese luxury consumer spending in the direct retail channel totalled $12.29 billion worldwide and $9.83 billion in mainland China in 2020, according to The NPD Group’s latest report. Despite COVID-19, Chinese consumers contributed almost two-thirds of global growth in luxury spending in 2020, which already accounted for one-third of the global total. Luxury brands are now focusing even more attention on the Chinese market and these powerful consumers, especially as China’s economy was the first to make a swift recovery from COVID-19, The NPD Group said in it...