Beijing Municipal Government reported that that Beijing will erect biggest garment research and development (R&D) center in Asia.

More than two hundred modern buildings with shiny signboards of the world-renown garment brands will be rising at Changying, Chaoyang District in Beijing by 2007. The area will become the biggest garment R&D center in Asia by then.

According to the President of H.K.I Development Co Ltd Luo Zhaoming, the company is to invest 3 billion yuan to turn the area into a center of fashion and culture. It will also become a center of world garment enterprises' HQ, operation, demonstration and sales.

The R&D center, consisting of 200 buildings, covers 800,000 square meters. At present the design for the project is underway and the center is expected to open in 2007.

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