From AP via International Herald Tribune:

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has set up a Communist Party at the headquarters of its China operations, news reports said Monday.

The move follows the success of China’s government-sanctioned union body in organizing unions at Wal-Mart’s 68 outlets in China.

The party branch was set up Saturday at Wal-Mart’s China headquarters in the southern city of Shenzhen, the party newspaper People’s Daily and the local newspaper Shenzhen Special Zone Daily said.[Full Text]