Jin Jiang rockets up hotel group rankings

China's Jin Jiang International Hotels Group, headquartered in Shanghai, has leaped up in the rankings to become the second-place global hotel group in an international report.

Released by American hotel magazine HOTELS in August, the report showed the top 325 global hotels, including global top 300 hotel groups and top 25 ranking hotel alliances, mainly based on overall operating room numbers as of Dec 31, 2018. Jin Jiang boasts 10,000 hotels and 1 million guest rooms in 120 countries, per the report.

"The company will promote openness and innovation and continue building the company into a world-leading hotel groups, contributing to Shanghai's strategic development plan of establishing the 'four brands' – service, manufacturing, consumption and culture," said Guo Lijuan, president of Jin Jiang Holdings Co Ltd.

As one of the leading hotel operators in China, the company has been on an impressive run acquiring hotels groups from abroad, including Louvre Hotels Group from France in 2015, as well as at home like Vienna Hotels Group in 2016.

By September, the number of hotels invested in and managed by the company has grown from 105 in 2003 to 10,000, spreading across 31 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions in the country and other 120 countries around the world.

To enhance its core competitiveness, the company has sped up the construction of "one center and three platforms", namely a global innovation center aiming at model flagship hotels development, a global sharing platform focusing on intelligent business model, a unified procurement platform and financial platform.