GreenTree Inns Hotel Management Group Inc. is an American-funded budget hotel chain based in China. The company was founded in 2004 by Alex Xu. There are currently over 400 GreenTree locations across China. The plans are to expand to 1000 locations by the end of 2012. The GreenTree headquarters are located in the Zhabei District

Zhabei District

Zhabei District of Shanghai has a land area of 29.26 km² and a resident population of 810,211 as of 2003. It is one of the downtown districts of Shanghai though the commercial potential has been continuously undervalued...

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Shanghai

Shanghai is the largest city by population in China and the largest city proper in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities in the People's Republic of China, with a total population of over 23 million as of 2010...

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The CEO of the company is Alex Xu, an alumnus of the University of Southern California

University of Southern California

The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...

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