Nanjing Chamber of Commerce announced that effective August 1, the municipal government will allow a limited number of live poultry markets to re-open in the city.

Nanjing Chamber of Commerce confirmed that it lifted trade bans on 26 live poultry markets in the city. For those markets not included in the list, only slaughtered poultry trade will be allowed. 

As for the future of live poultry markets, an official from Nanjing Chamber of Commerce says that the municipal government is planning on establishing an integrated enterprise with full operation that includes slaughtering, cold chain logistics and the sale of live poultry, to ease the management of city's poultry trade.

Nanjing, the capital city of China's H7N9 bird flu-afflicted Jiangsu province, ordered the suspension of all live poultry trade and the immediate shuttering of poultry markets in early April.