Yu Deming, the director of the China Pharmaceutical Enterprises Association, stated at "The 4th Growing Pharmaceutical Enterprise Development Forum" that China's drug retail market reached CNY66 billion in the first half of 2009, an increase of 15.8% compared with the same period in 2008.

Leo Pharma is establishing a Chinese affiliate to market Leo Pharma's portfolio of drugs for the treatment of the chronic skin disease psoriasis and other dermatological products.

Wuhan Food and Drug Administration has published a ruling on rational distribution of retail drugstores in Wuhan City, which says if two retail drugstores have been opened within an area of radius 500 meters, no new drugstores would be allowed to opened in this area.

Chinese traditional medicine ancient brand Beijing Tongrentang has formally set up its first retail store in Kunming, Yunnan.

A unified "Green Cross" sign for national pharmaceutical retail companies has been launched recently and the first ten units that will use this mark have been designated.

Tongjitang Chinese Medicines Company has signed a definitive purchase agreement to acquire Qinghai Pulante Pharmaceutical Company, a privately owned plant-based pharmaceutical company.