Both domestic and overseas exhibitors landed contracts at the fourth China International Small and Medium Enterprises Fair and China-Japan Small and Medium Enterprises Fair, which wrapped up in Guangzhou yesterday. According to Lin Ying, secretary-general of the fair’s organizing committee, 220,000 professional buyers from 30 countries and regions across the world visited the four-day event. [...]

South China’s Guangdong Province is extending its credit database for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to give them improved access to bank loans. The Guangzhou branch of the People’s Bank of China, which is in charge of the project, said it will input the credit information of 360,000 SMEs, two-thirds of the province’s total, into [...]

Chinese and Indian retailers are forcing their way into the Top 500 list of retailers in Asia Pacific, according to a new survey produced by Euromonitor International for RETAIL ASIA magazine. The Retail Asia Top 500 list, now in its fourth edition, shows that while retailers from the developed, high-value markets of Japan, Australia, South [...]