Myles Felt, vice president for international operation of the pizza restaurant chain Papa John's, said during a recent Chinese media interview that the company plans to double the number of its restaurants in China in three years, increasing from the current 155 to 300 restaurants.

Four government departments in Beijing — Beijing Municipal Commission of Commerce, Beijing Municipal Commission of Development and Reform, Beijing Municipal Commission of Urban Planning, and Beijing Administration for Industry and Commerce — have jointly announced a development guidance catalog for Beijing's distribution industry in 2009.

Offshore software development company VanceInfo Technologies Inc. will deploy an outsourced development center for China Merchants Bank.

Beijing Hualian Department Store Company has published a report which says that the company will issue CNY830 million in additional shares to its shareholder Beijing Hualian Group Investment Holding Company to acquire the group's five commercial real estate projects in Beijing and Jiangsu.

Aeon Co.,Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Aeon in China, has signed a contract with Beijing Hongtai Jiye Real Estate Development Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of COFCO, to open a Jusco supermarket in Chaoyang Grand Joy City, Beijing.