Yu Deming, the director of the China Pharmaceutical Enterprises Association, stated at "The 4th Growing Pharmaceutical Enterprise Development Forum" that China's drug retail market reached CNY66 billion in the first half of 2009, an increase of 15.8% compared with the same period in 2008.

The Beijing Administration for Industry and Commerce has released its latest test results on paper products sold in the city, which show that 35 kinds of paper goods, including facial tissues and disposable paper cups sold by Beijing MerryMart Supermart Hufangqiao Store, are substandard.

Traditional Chinese medicine company Beijing Tongrentang says that although the economy may continue to decline this year, the company will try to achieve revenues of CNY10 billion and maintain a rapid expansion in overseas markets.

Information from Wuhan's latest Food and Drug Administrative Meeting shows that the number of retail drugstores in Wuhan dropped for the first time, a decrease of 37 drugstores compared with the same period last year.

Leo Pharma is establishing a Chinese affiliate to market Leo Pharma's portfolio of drugs for the treatment of the chronic skin disease psoriasis and other dermatological products.

Wuhan Food and Drug Administration has published a ruling on rational distribution of retail drugstores in Wuhan City, which says if two retail drugstores have been opened within an area of radius 500 meters, no new drugstores would be allowed to opened in this area.