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Mr. Avocado, a brand which has only been on the market for about a year, is a joint venture among dominant global avocado supplier Mission Produce, Chinese importer Lantao, and Pagoda, a chain of thousands of fruit retail shops across China.

Data from China Customs shows four varieties of fruit, cherries, oranges, blueberries, and bananas, registering robust year-on-year growth in both import volume and import value during the first two months of 2018.

China’s domestic pineapple market surges and prices rise as growers wave goodbye to the depressed market of previous years. Xuwen County’s “sea of pineapples” welcomes a phase of high productivity. In the meantime, pineapple imports continue to grow.

Walmart China has opened its first outlet in a planned new chain of small format supermarkets—joining a crowd of similar new tech-laden, delivery-oriented supermarket brands jostling to become Chinese consumers’ go-to choice for daily groceries.