"We have a lot of expectations for our Chinese operations and the Chinese market," Lee, former vice-president with the US software giant Microsoft, said in Beijing on Wednesday.
Speaking after he received permission to work for the search engine in China, Lee said Google's development centre in China will be established very soon with the aim of recruiting 50 college graduates this year.
Google has been deciding where to establish the centre between Beijing and Shanghai and a decision would be made soon, Lee was quoted as saying by the China Daily.
Google already has a representative office in Shanghai and has signed deals with several advertisement agents, preparing for the formal launch of its business in China.
The search giant plans to build a world-class centre in China, which will not only work on the localisation of its products and services, but also on cutting-edge technologies for its global operations.
Microsoft Research Asia, which was founded by Lee in 1998 in Beijing, also said it would aim to recruit 100 to 150 graduates this year.
Microsoft sued Lee and Google for the breach of a non-compete agreement between itself and the scientist in July and demanded the court stop Lee from working at Google for one year following his departure from Microsoft.
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