The South Korean department store retailer Lotte has announced its new strategy for the Chinese market, stating that it will accelerate its expansion in China and will open its first Chinese single ownership store in Tianjin in 2011.

Shenzhen Municipal Department of Industry and Commerce has released the result of their tests of imported clothes during the third and fourth quarters of this year showing that 18 out of 30 batches of the imported clothes checked were substandard.

Maison Mode, the international department store brand, has began the trial operation of its first flagship store in the central China area.

Intime Lotte, a department store co-founded by the South Korean Lotte Shopping company and China Intime, will be formally opened on Wangfujing Street, Beijing on August 1.

Callaghan, a famous Spanish footwear brand, has opened a store at Beijing's China Central Place Luxury Walk, making it the brand's first store in China.