Microsoft to invest 500 million dollars in Chinese research and development facilities this year

April 12, according to foreign media reports, Microsoft Global Senior Vice President Zhang said Microsoft plans to invest in China's fast-growing research and development facilities 500 million U.S. dollars this year. He told Reuters in the corridor of the Boao Forum in Hainan that Microsoft believes China's development is of greater importance to it. China was a sales center for Microsoft from the start, and later became a research and development Center for Microsoft.　　Now, China is a strategic center for Microsoft. Zhang said that a Microsoft Research and Development Center in Shanghai will employ 1500 people in the first phase, eventually expanding to 7000 people. Microsoft will also set up Asia's research and development headquarters in Beijing. At present, Beijing's research and Development Center is under construction.　　The research and Development Center can hold 8000 people. Microsoft is actively developing its business in China. In addition to software sales and research and development, Microsoft also operates instant messaging and other Web services, including the Chinese version of Bing's search engine.　　Microsoft hopes the Bing search engine will one day compete with Google. Bing's search technology and markets are only just beginning to develop, Zhang said. In China, we are already expanding efforts in this area. Although we are still far behind the market leader, we need to be more determined and patient. Bing search engines have huge potential.　　Therefore, we are very optimistic about the future.　　According to Chinese government statistics, China is the world's largest internet market, with 384 million Internet users at the end of last year. According to the market research company Analysys International, under the promotion of Internet popularization, China's Internet search market in 2009 reached 7.15 billion yuan (1 billion U.S. dollars), an increase of 38.8%. Ranked by sales revenue, Baidu accounted for 60.9% of the market share, ranked first.　　Google's market share is 31.8%. Author: Tianhong