Chinese social networking website Renren.com has announced that it will launch an interest-free housing scheme, and employees can apply for loans of between CNY200,000 and CNY400,000.

Chinese B2B e-commerce group Alibaba has announced plans to launch a CNY3 billion housing loan scheme for its employees and a CNY500 million education fund to solve the preschool and primary education problems of children of its employees.

Royal DSM, the global life sciences and materials sciences company, has published its China sustainability report for the third consecutive year.

A Nanjing-based supermarket chain Suguo undertook to keep its undertaking of "no layoffs, no salary reduction" at the same time as it announced that its sales increased by 10% to CNY33 billion in 2009, despite the global economic crisis.

Siemens AG says that it has signed a range of new orders worth about CNY2 billion with Chinese firms; and its environmental business accounted for a significant proportion of the total.

Robert Bosch GmbH, one of the world's largest auto parts suppliers, has announced the establishment of an Electric Drive and Hybrid Division in China.

China has published Several Opinions on Further Promoting the Development of Medium and Small Size Enterprises as part of the measures it is taking to help small and medium enterprises overcome financial difficulties.