May, 2008

China Mobile is investing more than RMB600 million for building an operations center in Tianjin Airport Industrial Park.

As the base of China Mobile (Tianjin), the Binhai New Zone Operation Center is a modernized service area that integrates such functions as data network, call center, communications hub and operations dispatching and consists of a comprehensive communications production building, a communications hub building and related facilities. It is expected to serve Tianjin's construction of a more complete communications network, improving its regional influence and its enterprise competitiveness.

According to China Mobile (Tianjin)'s development plan, the company will invest a total of RMB2.9 billion in Binhai New Zone in the coming three years to support the area's data construction. Occupying a total area of more than 2200 square kilometers, Binhai New Zone is a national comprehensive reform industrial area approved by the Chinese government.