Retail is one of the most prosperous and the country to reflect the industry downturn, is the epitome of all economic activity in a country, accompanied by 20 years of rapid economic growth, China's retail industry is in the 70% annual rate of expansion of the global retail market expansion into the December 11, 2001, China officially become a WTO China's accession to the WTO on the one hand, China's retail industry has brought to the favorable side, but it also implies that the industry will face more intense competition from abroad and All through the analysis of the impact of China's WTO accession on retail and on the basis of how we should take in First, this article on the country's course of development and retail development to the former situation, which pointed out our retail presence in China ago; Retail participation in the WTO in recent years, and then elaborated on the salient features of the development; Secondly, summed up our retail WTO problems, which shows that the Chinese retail industry faces challenges and opportunities; Once again, on the analysis of transnational retail success in China, to learn their successful experience; Finally, the discussion of our large retail enterprise development strategies and how to enhance their core competitiveness, which is the focus of this Keywords: WTO; Retail; Development strategies; Core competitiveness