& shy; Recently, China Chain Management Association released the “China City Convenience Store Index in 2016”. Among the 36 cities surveyed, Fuzhou chain convenience stores ranked the top 24-hour business ratio, reaching 70%, ranked fifth, but other indicators such as store growth rate, saturation and other aspects were ranked relatively higher, resulting in Fuzhou city convenience store Overall Index ranked the second last. Insiders believe that from the perspective of the whole industry, the low chain rate of convenience stores is an important reason for the low score of Fuzhou City Convenience Store Index. & shy; The reporter learned that the city convenience store index released this time selected 36 cities across the country as research samples, including 30 provincial capitals, capitals, and, municipalities directly under the central government and four cities with separate plans, Dongguan and Wenzhou. The core data of the index are the number of chain branded convenience stores in each city, the growth rate of the number of convenience stores, the proportion of 24-hour convenience stores and the strength of policy support. The ranking results show that Fuzhou is only in front of Xining, ranking 35th. & shy; According to the index of 24-hour convenience stores, Fuzhou is second only to Chongqing, Xiamen, Haikou and Hohhot, ranking fifth with Guangzhou, reaching 70%, that is to say, 70% of chain convenience stores in Fuzhou have 24 hours of business. The overall index of Fuzhou convenience stores is mainly the growth rate and saturation of chain convenience stores, and the weight of these two indexes is as high as 70%. & shy; Last year, the growth rate of chain convenience stores in Fuzhou was much lower than that of other cities. Judging from the ranking, the fastest growing chain stores was Harbin, which exceeded 33%, the growth rate of chain convenience stores in 15 other cities is not less than 20%, and the growth rate of Fuzhou is only higher than that of Tianjin, which is 1.2%. In terms of saturation, the top cities are Dongguan, Changsha, Shenzhen and other cities, and Fuzhou ranks seventh in the bottom. In terms of policy support, there are only 7 cities with better support. & shy; The reporter noticed that the saturation index is calculated by dividing the total population of the city last year by the total number of chain stores in the city last year, in other words, the average population of the city owns a chain convenience store, according to the statistical results, there are 17789 people in Fuzhou, which is quite different from 1096 people in Dongguan. “The number of chain convenience stores in Fuzhou is only hundreds, but the total number of convenience stores including individual stores actually exceeds 5,000.” The relevant person in charge of some chain convenience stores in Fuzhou said that this shows that the chain rate of Fuzhou convenience stores is too low. & shy; “The competition in Fuzhou convenience store industry is still very fierce, especially individual convenience stores, which have developed rapidly in recent years. Basically, there are several around each community.” Insiders said that this made Fuzhou chain convenience stores dare not expand easily. Therefore, the total number of chain convenience stores in Fuzhou has not changed much in recent years. Therefore, indicators such as growth rate and saturation evaluated on the basis of chain convenience stores, fuzhou ranks lower. From the perspective of development trend, Fuzhou convenience store industry still needs to strengthen chain development. (Reporter Xie Chongling)