during the modern era, the first mainland shop opened in fuzhou, fujian in 1993. in 2006 the company established its mainland division, chow sang sang (china) company limited; this after the mainland government eased the process of a wholly foreign-owned enterprise gaining a business permit. by 2008 the company's main expansion strategy was focused on mainland china; at that time it had a revenue of 9.88 billion hong kong dollars, or $1.27 billion u.s. dollars, and 190 locations in hong kong, taiwan, macau, and the mainland, with over 40 of them being in hong kong.