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- Guangdong News
Date: 30-Jul-2007 Sources: (Shenzhen Daily)
FLEXIOFFICE, a company providing serviced offices, officially opened Saturday in Shenzhen's central business center (CBD), making it China's first home-grown brand of serviced offices.
The project is a trial by Shenzhen Qinian Industry and Development Co. Ltd., a subsidiary of China's flagship State-owned real estate company Beijing Capital Development Holding (Group) Co. Ltd. In November 2005, Qinian launched a serviced apartments project in the same building in collaboration with Singapore-based standardized services provider Frasers Hospitality Pte. Ltd.
Serviced offices are at the highest end of the office leasing market, providing a professional business environment including conference rooms, meeting rooms, audio- and video-conferencing, fully furnished offices, virtual offices and other business services such as interpretation and translation, broadband access, and even cafes.
Currently two international companies are offering serviced offices in Shenzhen. Britain's Forsyth launched its China operations on the whole ninth floor of the Shenzhen CITIC city plaza building in 2005. It provides a total business area of 400 square meters. Most of its clients are from Hong Kong, Europe and the United States.
Regus, the world's largest provider of outsourced offices, is on the 26th floor of Anlian Building, with a business area of 1,300 square meters.
According to Flexioffice executive director Amy Huang, Flexioffice provides a total business area of 2,300 square meters, the largest among all serviced office centers in China. Aiming to provide international services supported by its partner Frasers Hospitality Pte. Ltd., it targets small and emerging foreign businesses in Shenzhen.
'We believe Flexioffice will be a promising project as it is located in the city's CBD, where some 70 of the global 500 have established their arms and more are expected to come,'Zhang Jingyu, general manager of Shenzhen Qinian Industry and Development Co. Ltd., told the Shenzhen Daily on Saturday.
Shenzhen Qinian was previously owned by Beijing-based Tianhong Group, which merged with Beijing Urban Development Group in 2005 to form the country's leading State-owned real estate development giant Beijing Capital Development Holding (Group) Co. Ltd. With assets totaling 50 billion yuan (US$ 6.58 billion) and a workforce of nearly 10,000, Beijing Capital Development Group is in charge of building more than 40 percent of the Beijing facilities for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
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