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  • IKEA debuts city-center store in Shanghai

    Global home furnishing giant IKEA on Thursday opened a city-center store in Shanghai, the first of its kind on the Chinese mainland.

    July23,2020


  • IKEA to boost investment in China in new fiscal year

    Global home furnishing giant IKEA said it is committed to long-term development in China and will further increase investment in the Chinese market in the new fiscal year.

    August26,2022


  • IKEA reopens more stores in China

    Global home furnishing giant IKEA has reopened all its offline stores on the Chinese mainland excluding Wuhan, a hard-hit city amid the coronavirus outbreak.

    March17,2020


  • Ikea Centres to increase megamalls in China

    Centres China, Ikea Group's megamalls unit that entered the country in 2009, is firming up plans to replicate its success in three Chinese cities across the country.

    December26,2016


  • New IKEA store to be built in east China

    A new outlet for furniture retailer IKEA will be built in Xuzhou City in east China's Jiangsu Province.

    September20,2017


  • ​Ping An Consumer Finance partners with IKEA, FamilyMart

    Ping An Consumer Finance, the consumer finance arm of the Chinese financial conglomerate Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China (Ping An), recently partnered with the global home furnishing giant IKEA and the Japanese convenience store brand FamilyMart to provide clients with consumer finance services.

    September03,2020


  • Xiaomi ties up with Ikea to embrace smart homes: report

    Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi announced its partnership with Ikea of Sweden in developing smart home products at Xiaomi's MIDC conference in Beijing on Wednesday, China Daily reported.

    November29,2018


  • IKEA recalls 1.66 mln chest of drawers in China

    Sweden's IKEA Group on Tuesday started to recall over 1.66 million sets of drawers, including the popular Malm line, sold across China's mainland, according to China's top quality watchdog.

    July12,2016


  • GLOBALink | Furniture giant IKEA optimistic about business outlook and China - executive

    "I think definitely with China, we see a huge transition that's happening. Especially we see a transition the way the customers currently are engaging with us," Parag Parekh, co-chief digital officer & chief technology officer of IKEA retail, has said.|84

    November09,2022


  • Interview: At Davos, IKEA CEO calls Chinese market "super important," announces new stores in Beijing, Shenzhen

    The CEO of IKEA, the world's home furnishing giant, told Xinhua at the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos on Thursday that China is a "super important market" and that the company is expanding its retail footprint.

    January23,2026


  • Chinese constructor to build Cameroon customs headquarters

    Cameroonian authorities on Tuesday laid the foundation stone for the construction of the headquarters of Cameroon's General Directorate of Customs.

    December10,2025


  • Hainan FTP launches special customs clearance

    Goods entering and leaving the "first line" and "second line" of the customs system of Hainan Free Trade Port (FTP) can undergo special customs clearance starting Thursday.

    December18,2025


  • Buoyant Ikea gears up for more store expansion in China

    Ikea Group plans to open three new stores in China in its new financial year, which has just started, the head of the Swedish furniture and home accessories group in China said on Thursday.

    August18,2017


  • Buoyant Ikea gears up for more store expansion in China

    Ikea Group plans to open three new stores in China in its new financial year, which has just started, the head of the Swedish furniture and home accessories group in China said on Thursday.

    August18,2017


  • China adopts law on customs duties

    Chinese lawmakers on Friday voted to adopt a law on customs duties to promote high-level opening up.

    April26,2024


  • Customers browse products at Xiaomi shop in Ankara, Türkiye

    Customers try out products at a shop of Xiaomi, a Chinese electronics maker, in Ankara, Türkiye.

    April13,2026


  • IKEA hopes to kick off projects in Zhengzhou, starting date unclear

    Sweden-based furniture maker IKEA hopes to expand into Zhengzhou, but for now the company cannot confirm any information about the construction of projects in the city this year, said a PR representative surnamed Xu with IKEA.

    February14,2017


  • Customers shop at duty-free shopping mall in Sanya, China's Hainan

    The Haikou Customs supervised a total of 2.38 billion yuan (about 337 million U.S. dollars) in duty-free sales during the first month (from Nov. 1 to 30) of the implementation of the expanded offshore duty-free policy, up 27.1 percent year on year.

    December02,2025


  • China, Uganda implement AEO customs agreement

    A mutual recognition agreement of authorized economic operator (AEO) status signed between China and Uganda went into effect on Thursday, according to the General Administration of Customs (GAC).

    June02,2023


  • China signs AEO customs agreements with Burundi, Iceland

    China signed customs agreements on mutual Authorized Economic Operator (AEO) status with the Republic of Burundi and Iceland at the ongoing 6th WCO Global AEO Conference in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province, on Thursday.

    May10,2024


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