Facebook product manager visits China, denies renting building!

As the social networking giant Facebook, which is rumoured to have yet to enter mainland China, has rented office space in the centre of Beijing to open an office, Xiao Bian learned that more than 10 of Facebook's product manager teams are visiting China.

The Facebook Product Manager team has been interacting with several Internet start-up teams in China, meeting with the media in Beijing and going to Guangzhou to communicate with the micro-credit team, a Facebook product manager told the company.

Facebook and domestic product managers to communicate mainly products, technology-oriented, the two sides around how to deal with pictures, how to launch pre-installed topics such as discussion, did not involve the so-called into China.

Facebook is trying to downplay the trip, which is linked to rumours of a possible office in Beijing, stressing that the trip was a regular visit. The leader of the Facebook product manager's visit revealed that the Facebook product Managers team visited a number of places every year, only to choose China this year.

"Last year we visited Japan, India and other places, and we visited China this year, as well as Korea and elsewhere, and we visited different places every year." The people pointed out that the Google (micro-blogging) product team has just visited China recently, and also visited the millet company.

Interestingly, this is the first time that Facebook's product managers have visited China, and the number of people coming in is a rumor that Facebook is likely to be lifted out of the Chinese market and will no doubt spark Lenovo.

Earlier, Bloomberg reported that Facebook had rented more than 800 square metres of office space in May at the Fortune Financial center in the core business district of Beijing, and Facebook Vice President Wahn Smith (Vaughan Smith) Also in May this year in Beijing to attend the Global Mobile Internet conference revealed that the company also has thousands of application developers in China.

In response to rumours, the small series and Facebook staff to open direct communication, the other party made clear that Facebook will closely monitor the Chinese market, but will not be in the near future, so far, Facebook has not rented buildings in Beijing, just set up offices in Hong Kong, Facebook is offering services to mainland business owners who want to advertise on Facebook through their offices in Hong Kong.

"There has been a misunderstanding about Facebook, and if we really rented a building in Beijing, we would have a foothold in Beijing, but we don't have it at the moment, we just set up an office in Hong Kong very early," said the person. ”

In response, a Chinese internet company executive said Facebook's product manager, on the other hand, is not at the top of the hierarchy and is unlikely to take a stand on something so hot.

Currently, Facebook is working to boost its performance in Asia. In the first quarter of this year, the company accounted for 354 million U.S. dollars in the region, accounting for 14% of total revenue, 2 years ago, its Asian region revenue of 118 million U.S. dollars, accounting for about 11% of total revenue.

Facebook is keen on the Chinese market, and a sales person at a Hong Kong office in Facebook said Facebook is currently in Asia with Singapore as its core, and Facebook set up an office in Hong Kong three years ago to oversee Hong Kong, Taiwan and the mainland. Currently, staff have risen from the previous few to more than 20 people today.

However, a Facebook spokesman declined to comment on whether to open an office in Beijing, saying only that Chinese exporters and developers found Facebook a good way to reach consumers outside China.