Wang Yong, the director of China's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, has disclosed to local media that the quality department will improve its credit evaluation and information release system in 2010 to blacklist companies that violate quality laws.

The Chongqing municipal quality supervision department has released a document to regulate local food service providers.

The agricultural departments of six provinces in central China have jointly signed an agreement on the quality and safety of farm products, and they will also set up a mechanism to mutually report the on supervision of agricultural products to determine the root cause of substandard products.

Beijing Municipal Administration for Industry and Commerce has exposed 28 batches of unqualified bed linen products and all these products have been removed from sale in the city.

The Beijing Municipal Travel Agency Service Quality Supervision and Management Department has published the "Beijing Travel Agency Service Quality Information Bulletin for Quarter 3 2009", showing that the department received 14 complaints about nine travel agencies from July to September 2009.

In preparation for the Mid-Autumn Festival, the industrial and commercial departments in Beijing have begun special checks on the city's moon cake market.

Germany-based Volkswagen AG and Sweden's Volvo have announced recalls for substandard cars in China in accordance with the Regulation of Defective Automobile Product Recalls of China.