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		<title>China&#039;s CPI Rises 4.9% In January</title>
		<link>http://www.chinaretailnews.com/2011/02/17/4182-chinas-cpi-rises-4-9-in-january/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:43:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In January 2011, consumer price index rose by 4.9% over the same period of the previous year, according to the National Bureau of Statistics of China. Urban area and rural areas were up by 4.8% and 5.2%, respectively. Compared with December 2010, CPI increased 1.0%. The price of foodstuff increased 10.3% year-on-year. Of the total, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Chinese Smoking Ban Planned For 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.chinaretailnews.com/2010/05/26/3624-new-chinese-smoking-ban-planned-for-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 21:38:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChinaRetailNews.com Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yang Qing, an official from China's Ministry of Health of China, disclosed at a recent press conference that, from January 2011, smoking will be banned entirely from all indoor public places, work places, on public transportation, and other areas on the Chinese mainland. Yang said that the target was made under the Framework Convention on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Consumer Product Retail Sales Up 17% During Chinese New Year</title>
		<link>http://www.chinaretailnews.com/2010/03/03/3402-consumer-product-retail-sales-up-17-during-chinese-new-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChinaRetailNews.com Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to statistics from China's Ministry of Commerce, China's retail sales hit CNY340 billion during the "golden week" of Spring Festival 2010, which was an increase of 17.2% over those of the same period in 2009. The ministry's data shows that traditional Spring Festival goods such as food, tobacco, liquor, and fireworks were in great [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Majority Of Beijing Restauranteurs Support Smoking Ban</title>
		<link>http://www.chinaretailnews.com/2009/09/29/3021-majority-of-beijing-restauranteurs-support-smoking-ban/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:31:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChinaRetailNews.com Editor</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aiguo Weisheng Commission]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[restaurant]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liu Zejun, the director of the Beijing Aiguo Weisheng Commission, has disclosed to the media that Beijing will work out measures on the revision of the No Smoking Rule in 2010, after an evaluation is made before the end of 2009 on the results of the current smoking ban in the city. Polls show that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China&#039;s Retail Sales Reached CNY290 Billion During Spring Festival</title>
		<link>http://www.chinaretailnews.com/2009/02/06/2226-chinas-retail-sales-reached-cny290-billion-during-spring-festival/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:31:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChinaRetailNews.com Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[News from the Press Office of China's Ministry of Commerce is that from January 25 to February 31, 2009, which was the Spring Festival holiday week in China, and despite the economic slowdown, the country's total retail sales reached CNY290 billion, a year-on-year increase of 13.8%. During the Spring Festival, various promotions contributed to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foreign Retailers Excluded From Chinese Tobacco Market</title>
		<link>http://www.chinaretailnews.com/2009/01/09/2087-foreign-retailers-excluded-from-chinese-tobacco-market/</link>
		<comments>http://www.chinaretailnews.com/2009/01/09/2087-foreign-retailers-excluded-from-chinese-tobacco-market/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:31:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChinaRetailNews.com Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Supermarkets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carrefour]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In accordance with China's Administrative Measures for Tobacco Monopoly Licenses, foreign retailers &#8212; including Carrefour and Metro &#8212; have stopped selling tobacco products in their Chinese outlets from the beginning of 2009. In March 2008, China issued Administrative Measures for Tobacco Monopoly Licenses, which said it would prohibit foreign ventures from entering the Chinese tobacco [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wal-Mart To Open New Sam&#039;s Club In Pudong In 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.chinaretailnews.com/2008/12/29/2033-wal-mart-to-open-new-sams-club-in-pudong-in-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.chinaretailnews.com/2008/12/29/2033-wal-mart-to-open-new-sams-club-in-pudong-in-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 19:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChinaRetailNews.com Editor</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fu Mengxi]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sam Walton]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Fu Mengxi, vice president for Wal-Mart (China) Investment Co., Ltd., the company will open a new Sam's Club in Pudong, Shanghai in 2009. The new store is Wal-Mart's first Sam's Club in Shanghai and its fourth on the Chinese mainland. Having entered the Chinese mainland market in 1996 with its first store opened [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hong Kong Retail Sales Up 10.4% In August</title>
		<link>http://www.chinaretailnews.com/2008/10/07/1549-hong-kong-retail-sales-up-104-in-august/</link>
		<comments>http://www.chinaretailnews.com/2008/10/07/1549-hong-kong-retail-sales-up-104-in-august/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChinaRetailNews.com Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the Hong Kong Census and Statistics Department, the total retail sales in Hong Kong increased by 10.4% to HKD22.8 billion in August and the total retail sales value and the total retail sales volume in the first eight months of 2008 increased by 15% and 8.3% respectively. A spokesperson from the Hong Kong [...]]]></description>
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