The Hong Kong Tourism Commission and The HK Travel Industry Council have announced they will comprehensively supervise the region's inbound travel services.

Chongqing Tourism Administration has issued a notice to regulate the service quality of one-day trips, covering the advertising, arrangements of tourist routes, and contracts for these trips.

Metro, one of the world's largest retailers, has announced it has stopped supplying plastic bags in its 38 retail sites in China.

Xi'an Municipal Tourism Bureau has promulgated a redlist and blacklist of travel service providers in the city.

Electronic video displays are to be installed in 150 shopping malls and supermarkets and 19 large wholesale markets in Beijing by the end of this year to publish goods and food information.

International retailing giant Tesco has opened a new store in Tieling in northeast China which is reportedly the first energy-saving Tesco outlet in the region.

The Standardization Administration of China has published three plastic bag standards which will be formally enacted on June 1, 2008.