According to Chinese online shopping platform Taobao.com, the company is currently deploying offline retail kiosks and payment points across China to complement the over 4,000 locations it has already opened in Beijing in such supermarkets and convenience stores as Vanguard, Lianhua and Hi-24.

International retail giant Carrefour will cooperate with the Taiwan-based Chunghwa Telecom to provide mobile communication services in a mobile virtual network operator cooperative model.

Chain convenience store group 7-Eleven has jointly announced with China UnionPay the launch of a financial service plan, providing China UnionPay's standard card users in Guangdong with a series of convenient payment services.

Local media reports that Dazhong and Nokia have agreed to sign an exclusive cooperation agreement making Dazhong the first seller of Nokia's latest handsets in Beijing in September 2008.

Microsoft aims to increase its market share in the mobile phone operation system market through cooperation with D.Phone, one of the largest mobile phone retailers in China.

French luxury goods provider Christian Dior has launched a series of new mobile phones and targets China and Russia as its main markets for these products.