Reuters Insider - Davos 2014: My China plate is full - SOHO China's Zhang Xin

SOHO China

27/01/2014 12:30

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 Description:        Projects at home are enough to keep SOHO China    
                     busy for the next few years and the property      
                     developer won't be looking abroad, CEO Zhang Xin  
                     tells Reuters at the World Economic Forum in      
                     Davos.                                            
 
 
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 China's skyline is changing as rapidly as its economy. One firm that's played a 
leading role in the country's urbanization is its biggest commercial property 
development of Soho China. Angeline Ong caught up with CEO Zhang Xin and asked 
her how she found the mood at Davos this year. Wow, everybody's mood has 
changed. I was joking with a friend of mine saying that if anybody was depressed
in China only needs to come up here, for less than 24 hours, he would change 
because maybe – most companies are doing so well and the mood is really, 
really positive. Now let's talk a bit about your company. Paint us a picture of 
having to go with Galaxy Soho Tiananmen. We are real estate developers focused 
in Beijing and Shanghai building office buildings. And in what we do, we try to 
bring contemporary architecture into the work. Galaxy Soho is a good example. We
worked with a UK-based architect Zaha Hadid, created this very unexpected office
building. When you think about office building, it's like the boxy, glass 
building and this is very different. And this is also what the latest technology
allows us to do with all kinds of fluid – round shape and which previously 10 
years ago it had been really hard to do. We're only focusing in Beijing and 
Shanghai. We have a lot more projects coming up in Shanghai and then also quite 
a few in Beijing. And in the next few years, we have about 10 developments going
on at the moment and all will be finished in the next two, three years