In 1997, the Takeo Paper Trading (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. was established in Shanghai, where is well known as the center of commerce. Now, the business is enlarged way out of the area of Shanghai to other large cities. The business area includes Beijing, Hang zhou, Nanjing, Shen yang, Lianyungang, Wuhau, Zheng zhou, Da lian, and Kunming. It provides 40 individual paper lines offering a total of 700 stock items, and the most of which are Japanese and American papers.