The fire was reported shortly after 10 a.m. (0200 GMT) at the Big Capital Shopping Mall in the southwestern city of Chongqing and the mall was ordered evacuated, said an official of its management office. He would give only his surname, Zhou.
It was extinguished after about 30 minutes, said a man who answered the phone at the Chongqing fire-fighting headquarters.
``No casualties have been reported,'' said the man, who refused to give his name.
The fire started in the kitchen of a food stall on the mall's seventh floor, Zhou said. He said the top two floors of the eight-story building are filled with food vendors, while shops occupy the rest.
More than 2,000 people were evacuated as billowing smoke filled the upper stories of the mall, the Web site of the People's Daily newspaper reported.
China has suffered a string of deadly fires at shopping malls and other public facilities in recent months.
In February, a fire blamed on a discarded cigarette killed 54 people at a mall in the northeastern city of Jilin. Six mall employees were sentenced to prison on negligence charges.
The government is in the midst of a nationwide crackdown aimed at enforcing safety standards in public buildings, which often lack adequate fire extinguishers and emergency exits.
