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Microsoft China broke ground Tuesday on a 280-million-dollar
research facility in the middle of Beijing's "Silicon
Valley", the software giant said in a statement.
The Microsoft China R and D Campus, which is
expected to be complete in 2010, will feature two buildings of 80
and 65 metres (270 and 215 feet) each and a total of 101,000 square
metres (1.1 million square feet) of space.
"Through investments such as this, we are
building on our capabilities as one of Microsoft's key global R and
D centers and positioning the company to support the development of
the local IT ecosystem," said Ya-Qin Zhang, chairman of
Microsoft China.
The centre will be located in Beijing's
Zhongguancun area, which has a large concentration of
high-technology companies.
-- AFP
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