On March 2, Dazhong Transportation opened its Dazhong Merrylin Hotel at Shanghai's Pudong International Airport.

The project was co-launched by the Shanghai Airport Group anticipating an increase in overseas tourists coming to visit during the Olympics Games held in Beijing this summer and during the Shanghai World Expo in 2010.

Dazhong Chairman Yang Guoping said the airport hotel is the fifth in the city as part of its new round development strategy toward transportation, real estate and financial investment.

Yang said Dazhong plans to extend its strategy into the Yangtze Delta Region, Hainan and Anhui provinces and extend its hotel chain network nationwide.