Chinese B2C e-commerce website 360buy.com has reportedly invested in Beijing Haoyaoshi Pharmacy Chain Company, a subsidiary of Jointown Pharmaceutical Group Company Ltd.

China's State Food and Drug Administration has published a bulletin in which it exposes 30 websites that have been allegedly selling fake medicines.

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.

Forty-eight retail drugstores, including Jingyitang and Kangzhong Drugstore, in Tianjin are approved to be medical insurance oversight units.

The People's Government of Hebei Province has recently announced its Government Decree No.1, which says that abortion drugs should be banned for sale in retail companies in the province.