Information technology bellwether, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), has opened its fifth delivery centre in China for serving clientele in the Asia-Pacific market.

The centre, situated at Shenzen, is the Tata group company's fifth in China after Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou and Tianjin, it said in a statement issued here today.

With the opening of the new facility, TCS' total employees in China go up till 2,000 and 92 per cent of them are locals (Chinese citizens), a spokesperson for the company said here. It had entered China in 2002.

The centre will be the preferred offshore delivery center for TCS China when delivering projects to APAC (Asia Pacific) markets and will also focus on providing local service to customers in the region, the statement said.