Chinese home appliances and electronics retailer Suning has announced that after six months of preparation and construction, its after-sales technical training center has been formally put into operation, making it the first after-sales technical training platform in the Chinese home appliances retail industry.

According to reports in Chinese local media, Shawn Gray, operating vice president of the Chinese region of Wal-Mart Stores Inc., has resigned.

A representative from the Chinese sportswear company Lining has confirmed to the local media that the company's three executives, including Chief Operating Officer Guo Jianxin, Chief Marketing Officer Fang Shiwei, and Director for the E-commerce Department Lin Li, have resigned.

Roland Lawrence, Walmart's chief financial officer for China, and Rob Cissell, the chief operating officer in the country, have reportedly resigned their positions.

The American fast food giant McDonald's has announced it will open 175 to 200 new restaurants in China in 2011 and it will hire 50,000 new employees across China.

Pepsico Inc. has announced that it will build a new Chinese food manufacturing base in the Wuhan Food Industrial Processing Zone, Hubei.