McDonald’s has outlined its ambitious China plans at a time when relations between foreign businesses and Beijing are not at their best, with a growing number of Western companies complaining of a deteriorating operating environment in the country.
Tim Fenton, the company’s president of Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa ,said McDonald’s, which has about 1,100 outlets in China expects to boost that number to a total of 2,000 by the end of 2013.
Wall Street Journal Online reported the company opened its first outlet in China in Shenzhen in 1990 and now employs more than 60,000 people in the country.