Wal-Mart quadruples size of distribution center

In Tianjin Wal-Mart has expanded its distribution center to handle the growing demand of the world’s leading retailer’s business in the Chinese market.

The expanded center in Tianjin’s Beichen district can handle 330,000 packages of goods. Gao Jian, a logistics and distribution officer at Wal-Mart, said that is four times the capacity of the original one.

The center is the second for Wal-Mart on the Chinese mainland. The other is in the southern coastal city of Shenzhen. The center in Tianjin is not brand new. The original was built in 2003 and was then expanded to its new size.

Wal-Mart has opened 91 stores on the Chinese mainland since its entry into China in 1996.