The Chinese B2B e-commerce company Alibaba.com has announced that its new online wholesale website, 1688.com, was formally launched on March 9, 2010, and the wholesale traffic reached a whopping 6.39 million people on the first day.

The Bureau of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation of Guangzhou Municipality and China International Electronic Commerce Center have jointly launched Guangzhou's first state-level regional e-commerce platform called, simply, "Guangzhou International E-commerce Platform".

International sports apparel maker Nike has announced plans to invest USD99 million to build a new distribution center in the Taicang Economic Development Area, Jiangsu, to reinforce its future development in China.

Shenzhen Municipal Department of Industry and Commerce has released the result of their tests of imported clothes during the third and fourth quarters of this year showing that 18 out of 30 batches of the imported clothes checked were substandard.

Global Sources has announced a series of private sourcing events aimed at enabling international buyers to get new children's fashions to market faster.

During a review of children's apparel, toys and stationery before the International Children's Day, Guangzhou Municipal Quality Inspection Bureau found that about 30% of children's apparel sold in the Guangzhou market is substandard.

Unions in Canada are upset that the olympians part of Team Canada are wearing clothing manufactured in China.

A new DuPont fluoropolymer production plant has begun operations in Changshu.

U.S.-based, Heelys, a youth sports lifestyle company, announced the opening of its first China representative office in Qingdao.