Nine. By March 2023 13, there were 50 stores in Skode Hamburg, including 46 franchised stores and 9 franchised stores in Shanxi Province. Shanxi, referred to as "Jin" for short, is a provincial administrative region of People's Republic of China (PRC). Taiyuan, the capital, is located in North China, bordering Hebei in the east, Shaanxi in the west, Henan in the south and Inner Mongolia in the north.