South Surveying recently completed their new headquarters in Guangzhou, China. More than 1,000 employees are working in the global and national sales, research & development, quality assurance, marketing and manufacturing of total stations, GIS software and GNSS receivers from the surveying and navigation buildings in the South China metropolis. South proudly renamed the building adjacent to the downtown boulevard into Surveying Building, expressing the importance of the field of geomatics in general and surveying in particular for a country that is working on its infrastructure and construction in a pace unknown before.

Nearly 5,000 South employees are working in different offices all over China, supplying the country with the hardware they need to keep up that pace. South is more than just a manufacturer: it’s providing a variety of applications as well, i.e. high-speed railway solutions, monitoring engineering, spatial data processing, etc.

During a visit of GIM International’s Durk Haarsma and Victor van Essen to the South Surveying & Mapping Instrument HQ in Guangzhou last week, where Mr. Miao Xiaolin, Assistant to Managing Director, Mr. Han, General Manager of International Business Division, and Mr. Jackie Cheung, Manager of Asia/Europe/Oceania Regions, well explained the strategies of South, which is focused on worldwide growth in the coming years. South Surveying will soon embrace its 25th anniversary to witness more advancements and achievements ahead. In the past 20+ years, it supplied the business with more than 100,000 total stations, a great milestone celebrated in 2010. The fast-growing giant will be bringing out a major turnover of 50,000 total stations and 20,000 GNSS receivers this year, being the biggest production base for key surveying equipments in the world, and therefore playing a dominant role over all other Chinese suppliers.