Dell to boost China spend to $100B over a decade [View All]

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Source: AP

4 hours ago

SEATTLE — Dell Inc. is making a $100 billion bet that China will remain one of the fastest-growing markets for personal computers over the next decade.

Dell said Thursday it plans to open a manufacturing, sales and service center in Chengdu in 2011 that could eventually employ more than 3,000 workers. The new operations center is a response to rapid growth in business in Western China, Dell said.

China has been courting foreign investors for projects in its western regions as a matter of policy for more than a decade. Dell would not say what sort of incentives it was offered to construct new facilities in Chengdu.

Round Rock, Texas-based Dell already employs about 6,000 people in China, spread among manufacturing plants and other operations in the southeastern city of Xiamen, a product design and engineering center in Shanghai and a service center in Dalian, a city east of Beijing. It also contracts with electronics manufacturers in the country.

Over the next decade, the company said it expects to spend about $100 billion on China operations. It spent $23 billion in China in 2009.



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