JAL Hotels Company has announced the opening of a new Nikko Hotels property in Suzhou.

Starwood's Le Meridien Hotels and Resorts has announced that it is opening three new hotels in Greater China in Taipei, Zhengzhou, and Xi'an.

HNA's CNY3 billion group northern headquarters in Tianjin Municipality has been registered in the commerce and industry department, and will be formally set up in May 2010 to allow the company to expand its hotel business.

Starwood's latest property in Tianjin, the new Sheraton Tianjin Binhai Hotel, is slated to open in August 2010.

Nanchang, the capital of China's Jiangxi province, plans to promote the concept of green food service among the city's food and beverage service providers and will encourage consumers to buy in an environmentally friendly manner.

China's National Bureau of Statistics has published its major economic indices for November 2009 showing that the country's retail sales of the country rapidly during the month.