Wal-Mart 1996 entered China and opened the first Wal-Mart shopping plaza and Sam member store in Shenzhen. Wal-Mart has more than 23,000 employees in China. Up to now, the total investment of Wal-Mart in China has reached 6,543.806 billion yuan.

The new locations of Wal-Mart's Asian headquarters and global procurement center are currently under construction in Futian District, Shenzhen. With a total investment of 700 million yuan and a total construction area of 200,000 square meters, the project will become Wal-Mart's Asian headquarters in 2007 and will also manage its global procurement network, with an annual total of * * *19 billion US dollars.