Japanese retail company Muji has announced that Muji's sales in China have accounted for 8.7% of the company's overall sales, making China the most important overseas market for the company.

According to Masaaki Kanai, the CEO of Ryohin Keikaku, despite the gloomy global economy the company plans to increase the number of its Muji stores in China to 30 by the end of 2010.

Japanese apparel company Muji has announced that in 2008 the company will open 20 overseas stores, which will exceed the number of its domestic stores. It is the first time that its overseas stores exceeded domestic stores in number, and China is its focus for some of this expansion.