According to Emesto Tanmantiong, president of Jollibee, the Philippine fast food chain plans to increase the number of restaurants it owns in China to 1,000 in the next five years.

Suning has released its report for the first half in 2008, which says the company achieved total revenues of CNY25.9 billion in the first six months and its net profits increased by 70.36% to CNY1.1 billion.

According to LiNing's half year report, the company's business developed rapidly in the first six months of 2008 and its net profits increased by 68.3% to CNY333.7 million.

According to the statistics released by the Ministry of Commerce on July 31, 2008, in the first half of 2008, the combined retail sales of consumer goods in China's rural areas reached 1.622 trillion, a year-on-year increase of 20%.