Mumbai, Nov 18 (IANS) India’s largest IT services provider Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Tuesday announced the inauguration of its fourth global delivery centre in China.The facility at Tianjin will have capacity of 300 seats and will be the fourth delivery centre in China after Bejing, Shanghai and Hangzhou, the company said in a statement.

With this, the company will have a staff strength of over 1,300 in the region. “These facilities are strategic investments in our IT infrastructure in this region in order to leverage the local talent pool,” said TCS executive vice president Girija Pande in the statement.

The new centre will support local business opportunities as well as business process outsourcing (BPO) opportunities in the Japan, US and Europe, the company added.

In July 2002, TCS became the first Indian IT company to start operations in China. At present, TCS provides support and solutions to top 30 companies from the financial, telecommunications, manufacturing and government sectors in China.