The Food Wise Hong Kong Campaign has been gathering support within the food and beverage industry to adopt good practices to minimize food waste.

China's State Food and Drug Administration has issued a document which requires that information on food be published periodically in the interest of food safety.

News from Wuhan Municipal Department of Industry and Commerce is that a food safety credit rating system is being extensively promoted in Wuhan.

Barry Friedman, the vice president of Wal-Mart China, has stated that Wal-Mart will actively push forward the "Connecting Agriculture With Supermarkets" program in China, benefiting one million Chinese farmers over the next three years.

According to China's National Bureau of Statistics, the entrepreneur confidence index in China increased to 120.1 in the third quarter of 2009: an increase of 9.9 points compared with that of previous quarter.

According to Eric Legros, the CEO of Carrefour China, the company plans to enhance purchase of agricultural products from Chongqing, and the French retailer is expected to buy fruit and vegetables of over CNY100 million in the city in 2010.

China's State Administration for Industry and Commerce has released a new rule to tighten up the supervision of advertisements of food products.