After announcing its plans to open its first AI lab in China last month, Google today has silently opened the 3rd office in Shenzhen in its latest expansion in China. Shenzhen city in China is known for being a global hardware hub, and the office isn’t a fully functional campus. Instead, it is just space within a serviced office and will start this week.
Google says that it has important clients and partners in Shenzhen and it is setting up space there to have better communication and workflow. It should be noted that Shenzhen is the home for the $500 billion firm Tencent and other mobile giants like Huawei and ZTE, Alibaba, and Baidu. Google currently has offices in Shanghai and Beijing in China.
Shenzhen space will most likely be used by the team members that have spent a lot of time there. The office space in Shenzhen also reflects the Google’s acquisition of a large chunk of HTC’s business.
Google in a statement has said:
Hello China Googlers,
I hope your 2018 is off to a great start! I want to give you all a heads up about a new workspace we’ve opened in Shenzhen. As you may know, we have a number of Googlers in China who travel to the Shenzhen area for business on a regular basis. We’ve heard a lot of feedback that there was a need for a space to work from while in the area—so, after a few months of scouting, we recently signed a lease for a serviced office in Shenzhen. The space opened this week and is now up and running. We’re hopeful this will provide Googlers with a comfortable base to work from in the area.