Located conveniently just outside Beijing's fifth ring road and covering an area of 17,000m2, this new facility has an open office and innovative design, improving communication between R&D teams and providing inspiration for their creative work. Focussing amongst other tasks on requirement management, testing and validation as well as development of services and systems, the new space gives home for more than 200 employees - adding up to a total of more than 1,100 staff in the Chinese R&D network.

Covering a total area of 70,000 m2 across the three locations, the centers cultivate local talent, with the result, that more than two thirds of the R&D professionals are Chinese. While each R&D center has different functions, they complement each other and form a comprehensive innovation network.

In 2018, BMW's new R&D Center in Beijing will run more than 70 test vehicles across China, the testing mileage is planned for a historical high of 5 million kilometres.

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