OPPO breaks ground on new Chang’an research and development facility

OPPO held a ground-breaking ceremony in China’s Chang’an Town, in Dongguan, Guangdong Province, announcing that the company will be establishing a new research and development center.

Named as Chang’an R&D center, the facility is expected to house around 5,000 personnel upon its completion. OPPO’s Vice President, Eric Zhu, stated:

We are very pleased to officially break ground on OPPO’s new Chang’an R&D center. It will play a strategic role in OPPO’s R&D endeavors, further enhancing the core technological capabilities of the company and accelerating the implementation of our R&D strategy and objectives. The project will be built to the highest industrial standards and we will spare no effort in making the new R&D center a masterpiece initiative in the Guangzhou-Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Corridor, helping to bolster the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

The new facility will be OPPO’s global R&D center, with it being tasked to handle research, design, and testing various devices. The R&D center is designed by architecture firm Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates. It covers about 82,000 square meters and will consist of 10 all-glass towers.