Retail enterprises in Chengdu have recently set up their own industry organization: Chengdu Retailers Association.

Information from Wuhan's latest Food and Drug Administrative Meeting shows that the number of retail drugstores in Wuhan dropped for the first time, a decrease of 37 drugstores compared with the same period last year.

China Nepstar Chain Drugstore has strengthened its management team with new appointments, naming Ian Wade as co-chief executive officer and William Weili Dai as the new chief financial officer.

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.

288 retail drugstores in Mianyang City have reportedly resumed their business after the recent Wenchuan earthquake.

Shanghai No.1 Pharmacy Company, the leader in Shanghai's medicinal retail industry, has announced the resignation of its former general manager Shao Songqi and the appointment of Xu Zhenwu from Bailian Group as Shao's replacement.