An expanded distribution center for Wal-Mart in north China´s Tianjin has been completed to meet 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, quadrupling the capacity of the original one, according to Gao Jian, a logistics and distribution officer at Wal-Mart.

The center is the second for Wal-Mart on the Chinese mainland. The other is in the southern coastal city of Shenzhen.

The Tianjin distribution center will supply goods to up to 90 Wal-Mart stores. Currently, it is responsible for supplying goods to 28 super centers and one Sam´s club in north China.

The center in Tianjin, which was built in 2003, began to be expanded last year.

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

Source: Xinhua