Apple suspended the sale of its iPhone 4S smartphones in its Chinese retail outlets.

Financial Street Holding has announced in Hong Kong that its wholly-owned subsidiary Beijing Jinsheng Real Estate Development Company has signed a 20-year lease agreement with Galeries Lafayette (China).

Xiabu Xiabu, a Taiwan-invested hotpot restaurant chain, has opened its 100th restaurant in Daxing, Beijing.

Four government departments in Beijing — Beijing Municipal Commission of Commerce, Beijing Municipal Commission of Development and Reform, Beijing Municipal Commission of Urban Planning, and Beijing Administration for Industry and Commerce — have jointly announced a development guidance catalog for Beijing's distribution industry in 2009.

Swedish apparel retailer H&M has announced plans to vigorously expand in the Chinese market during 2009 by opening five new specialty stores in Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong.

Aeon Co.,Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Aeon in China, has signed a contract with Beijing Hongtai Jiye Real Estate Development Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of COFCO, to open a Jusco supermarket in Chaoyang Grand Joy City, Beijing.