Earlier today (30th March 2020), Xiaomi had announced that its Wuhan Headquarters has officially resumed operations. The Chinese company has just sent the first batch of employees to the site with “epidemic care packages” that included masks, hand sanitizer, and a red envelope.

The tech giant has emphasized prevention and caution at work for its Wuhan Headquarters. Xiaomi will operate on stricter prevention and control measures such as two temperature measurements, two masks, and a meal sharing system as well, all to build a strong defense against the recent Coronavirus pandemic.

The headquarters has just recently opened back in December 2019. However, the site was a force to shut down after confirmed cases of infection surfaced on 20th January 2020. Now, nearly two months after, the Wuhan headquarters has finally opened again after forcing its employees to take a vacation to set up an epidemic prevention and control team. Amongst the near 2,000 employees, everyone has been screened for the infection with no cases having been discovered so far.

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Xiaomi Wuhan headquarters had started construction back on 25th November 2018 and is located in the Wuhan East Lake zone and features an L shaped design. Its total surface area covers nearly 52,000 square meters with 2 floors underground and 7 floors above ground. It can accommodate about 2,400 to 3,000 employees in total as well.

For those unaware, the Wuhan district in China was where the recent Coronavirus outbreak was first discovered. Since then it has spread to upwards of 178 countries, while the Chinese government had imposed lockdowns on the city and various offices and factories like the Xiaomi Headquarters, to curb the further spreading of the infection.

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On 18th December 2019, Xiaomi‘s Wuhan headquarters has officially opened with Lei Jun, the CEO of Xiaomi Group, attending the opening ceremony. The new headquarters of the Chinese company is located in Optics Valley Central City, in the Hubei province and has been completed in just two years since its official listing.

Back in 2017, Xiaomi’s Wuhan Headquarters was first announced in the East Lake Development zone as a new area of settlement. Jump forward to 25th November 2018, the company held the unveiling ceremony in the same location announcing that the project is officially started. Now, in just two years since its official announcement, the headquarters is finally complete.

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The total construction area of Xiaomi’s new Wuhan headquarters is about 52,000 square meters which can accommodate anywhere between 2,400 to 3,000 employees. Previously, Lei Jun had revealed that the production cost alone for the new headquarters was 10.5 billion Yuan or roughly 1.5 billion US dollars. Notably, the company has also recruited about 2,000 employees out of which 80 percent were hired from the local areas.

The Wuhan Headquarters of Xiaomi is the second center of the company’s artificial intelligence department; through which the company plans on building Hubei Xiaomi Artificial Intelligence Technology Innovation Center for future techs scientific research and development. This will further be supplemented by employees taken up directly from various reputable universities in the region.

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Following some lucrative offers and the ongoing trend of moving away from the hustling and bustling cities in China, Xiaomi is also moving to a Tier-2 city, Wuhan. Xiaomi has started to build new headquarters in central China’s Hubei province. The Chinese electronics maker is not the only one, that is moving away from big cities, even Huawei and other major companies are following the same trend.

Talking particularly about Xiaomi, then various reasons have made the company to choose Wuhan as their favorite city for new headquarters. Xiaomi will be building R&D center due to the presence of various reputable universities in the region. The new headquarter will be built to accommodate 10,000 employees at the campus. Its new campus will focus purely on AI technology.

Speaking at the occasion, Xiaomi founder Lei Jun said, “Wuhan is perfect for an R&D center because it’s conveniently located at central China and has rich talent pool thanks to reputable universities located in the region. With plans to construct a headquarter with up to 10,000 staff, Xiaomi wants to build Wuhan as the new hub in the AI era.” 

Xiaomi has not sprawled up the idea within just a few days, Xiaomi is in talks and is preparing for it since past couple of years. In 2017, Xiaomi came into strategic partnership with Wuhan local governing body. At that time, they opened up offices in the Optics Valley in the Wuhan city. As per recent stats, a total of 800 employees are working on the same campus in Wuhan.

Now, a full-fledged, whole new Xiaomi headquarters are in works and is expected to complete in the next 2-3 years. After completion, Xiaomi will start pushing its employees to new headquarters with the same pay-grade and other incentives. Even, Xiaomi will offer 30000 yuan relocation bonus and will also help them to get local home. Xiaomi will help employees to fully settle in the new city without any issue.

Even though, Xiaomi is building up a whole new team to get new talent out of the local universities.

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It’s not for the first time that any company in China is migrating to other cities. Even though, Huawei made similar decisions to relocate from Shenzhen to Guangdong. Alibaba is also building a new regional headquarters in Xi’an and Nanjing. It is a productive step from companies to cut high operational costs in big cities. Even tier-2 towns in China are offering various perks and cuts for companies moving in their boundaries.

What do you think about the new trend? Is it beneficial for companies?

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