By the end of November this year, Beijing has constructed or renovated 1,210 shopfronts for daily amenities, surpassing the original goal of opening up 1,000 establishments, according to the Beijing Municipal Commission of Commerce.

Among the shopfronts, 873 units were newly built and 337 were renovated. Altogether 421 vendors for green groceries, 201 convenience stores, and 167 breakfast stands were built or refurbished, making up 65 percent of the network in the city. In total, 541 shopfronts are located in the central districts including Dongcheng, Xicheng, Chaoyang, Haidian, Fengtai and Shijingshan, accounting for 44.7 percent of the total number, and the rest fall in the other districts. 

The coverage of these shopfronts for daily amenities reached 87.4 percent of the city by the end of November. Among them, 34.9 percent have become chain stores, an increase of 5.5 percentage points from 2016. In the central districts, the percentage of chain store is 43.2, which saw an increase of 8.2 percentage points compared to the end of last year. 

The Beijing Municipal Commission of Commerce said the city has surpassed its target in its key project to improve people's livelihood.

The commerce authorities will release a series of follow-up documents to further ensure that shopfronts for amenities will get more space and cover a bigger area of the city. Starting from May 2017, for all the projects that aim to improve amenity establishments, the Beijing municipal government has been providing subsidies accounting for as much as 30 percent of total investment. The governmental support would last for three consecutive years to encourage and assist the construction of more service units.

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