Private office China searches land on a market that works differently from almost every other one Wezoo covers. We list 155 buildings in 45 Chinese cities that publish private offices, from a 34-building cluster in Shanghai down to single addresses in Huainan, Kunshan and Weihai. This guide sets out what those offices actually contain, where they are, what the listed rates are, how much floor area a team of a given size needs, and how to request one.
What you get with a private office in China — and what you do not
A private office on Wezoo is a lockable, enclosed room inside a managed business centre. It is yours for the term of the agreement: your desks, your chairs, your door. It is not a desk on an open floor, and it is not a shared room you book by the hour.
What comes with the room is set at building level, not per tenant. Across the 155 Chinese buildings, 154 list catering and 136 list breakout space. Sixty list a lounge, 56 list parking, 53 list a coffee and tea bar, 52 list step-free access, and 50 list a position near public transport. Those are the facilities the operator publishes for the address as a whole, which means the lounge, the pantry and the meeting rooms are shared with the other tenants in the building unless you have agreed otherwise. The enclosed office is the part that is exclusively yours.
Three things are deliberately not in that list. There is no dedicated reception for your company, no dedicated meeting room included by default, and no guarantee that a listed facility is on your floor rather than elsewhere in the building. Each of the 12 buildings below links straight through to its own page, where the operator spells out the facilities for that specific address.
One more structural point, and it matters more in China than anywhere else on Wezoo: a private office is requested, not booked. There is no instant checkout. You send an enquiry, the operator comes back with what is free on which floor, and the terms are agreed from there.
Where private offices are available in China — the cities and how many buildings in each
The 155 buildings sit in 45 cities. The distribution is steep: the 12 largest clusters hold 107 of the 155 addresses, and 22 cities have exactly one building each. If your requirement is tied to a specific tier-3 city, the realistic answer is often one address, not a shortlist.
| City | Buildings |
|---|---|
| Shanghai | 34 |
| Beijing | 13 |
| Shenzhen | 11 |
| Wuhan | 7 |
| Xi’an | 7 |
| Hangzhou | 7 |
| Tianjin | 6 |
| Ningbo | 5 |
| Guangzhou | 5 |
| Jinan | 4 |
| Suzhou | 4 |
| Shenyang | 4 |
| Nanjing | 4 |
| Chengdu | 4 |
| Hefei | 2 |
| Foshan | 2 |
| Kunming | 2 |
| Qingdao | 2 |
| Changsha | 2 |
| Chongqing | 2 |
| Fuzhou | 2 |
| Haikou | 2 |
| Nantong | 2 |
| Changchun, Zhengzhou, Jining, Changzhou, Tangshan, Shijiazhuang, Taiyuan, Nanchang, Taizhou, Xiamen, Mianyang, Zhongshan, Wuxi, Jiaxing, Shangrao, Dalian, Xiangtan, Weihai, Tongxiang, Yantai, Kunshan, Huainan | 1 each |
Shanghai alone carries 34 of the 155. Beijing, the second cluster, has 13, and Shenzhen 11. After the top three the market thins quickly: Wuhan, Xi’an and Hangzhou hold seven each, and from Hefei downwards no city reaches three.
Two names in that table need a word of explanation, because the source data spells them inconsistently. Ningbo appears both as Ningbo and as Ningbo City, Xi’an appears as Xi’an, Xi’an Shaanxi and Xi’an, Shaanxi, and Haikou appears as Haikou and Haikou City. These are the same three cities, counted once each here. Grouped naively they would read as six smaller places, and Xi’an would look like a four-building city rather than a seven-building one.
What a private office costs in China
Chinese listings on Wezoo do publish rates, and they publish them in a particular shape that is easy to misread. The figure shown is per person, per month, in renminbi, at the longest commitment tier the operator offers, which is a term of 24 months or more. A shorter commitment of 12 to 24 months is quoted separately and is higher. The price of the actual room is that per-person figure applied to the number of people the room is sized for.
A worked example from the listings makes the shape clear. At Qihang Times Building in Suzhou, the published rate is CN¥350 per person per month on a 24+ month term, and the building’s one-person rooms are listed at CN¥350 per month while its ten-person rooms are listed at CN¥3,500. At Infinitus Tower in Shanghai, the rate is CN¥2,450 and the one-person rooms are listed at that figure.
The spread between buildings is wide and tracks the city rather than the operator. The highest published rates in the twelve below are in Beijing and Shenzhen; the lowest are in Suzhou and Ningbo. Every listed figure is a starting rate, which means the cheapest unit in that building at the longest term. The room you are quoted may sit above it.
What moves the number, in practice, is the floor, the size of the room, the view and how long you sign for. None of those are visible until the operator replies to an enquiry, which is why the rate is published as a floor and not as a quote.
Two things worth knowing before you compare. All 155 Chinese buildings list a minimum rent term of one month, so the long commitment is what earns the published rate, not what is required to take space at all. And the rates below exclude whatever the operator charges for extras such as parking or additional meeting-room hours.
How much space you need: team size, desks and floor area
Across the 155 buildings there are 3,210 individual private offices listed, and each one carries a capacity and a floor area. The capacity figure is a ceiling: it is the largest number of people the operator will put in that room, so the room you want is one whose ceiling is at or above your headcount.
The listed rooms run from a capacity of 1 to a capacity of 59, and from 1 m² to 176 m². The shape of the inventory is heavily weighted to small teams: 250 of the 3,210 rooms are single-person offices, while only 87 have a ceiling of 20 people or more. If you need a floor for thirty, the list of buildings that can take you is short, and the twelve below flag which ones go that high.
Two buildings show what those pairings look like in practice. Qihang Times Building in Suzhou lists one-person rooms at 1 to 5 m², three-person rooms at 8 to 10 m² and a ten-person room at 27 m². Infinitus Tower in Shanghai lists one-person rooms at 3 m², a ten-person room at 26 m² and a twelve-person room at 30 m². Read the square-metre figure alongside the capacity rather than instead of it: the capacity tells you what the operator will allow, the area tells you how it will feel.
We do not state a legal minimum floor area per person for China. No such figure is published in the inventory, and we have not verified one against a primary source, so none is given here.
Who can rent a private office in China — individuals, startups and established companies
A managed private office is taken on a service agreement with the operator rather than a commercial lease with a landlord, and that is what makes the short end of this market accessible. A single founder can take a one-person room; 250 of them are listed. A team of five can take a room in most of the 45 cities. An established company opening a China office can take a floor in the handful of buildings with 20-plus capacity.
Who this is not for is worth saying plainly. If you want to fit out a space to your own specification, knock walls through or install your own infrastructure, a managed private office is the wrong product: the room comes as it is. If your headcount is one or two and you do not need a door that locks, a desk in a shared area costs less. And if you need space in a city that is not in the table above, we do not have it; there is no point in enquiring.
On the question that foreign companies usually ask next, whether one of these addresses can be used to register a Chinese entity: that depends on requirements we have not verified for China and on what the individual operator is willing to put in writing. We are not going to name an authority, a form or a procedure we have not checked. Ask the operator directly, in the enquiry, and confirm the answer with the competent authority before you rely on it.
Private office China: twelve buildings, city by city
These twelve are one building per city for the twelve largest clusters, picked to show the spread. They are a sample of the 155, not a ranking, and the other 143 are on Wezoo too.
1. Infinitus Tower — Shanghai
Infinitus Tower sits at 26&27/F, Infinitus Tower in Shanghai, operated by Spaces. It lists 43 private offices, sized from 3 m² to 153 m², with room capacities running up to 53 people. The published starting rate is CN¥2,450 per person per month on a term of 24 months or more.
2. Kerry Centre — Beijing
Kerry Centre sits at 11/F North Tower, Beijing Kerry Centre in Beijing, operated by Regus. It lists 24 private offices, sized from 5 m² to 43 m², with room capacities running up to 17 people. The published starting rate is CN¥3,550 per person per month on a term of 24 months or more.
3. Ping An International Finance Centre — Shenzhen
Ping An International Finance Centre sits at 85th Floor, Ping An Finance Centre in Shenzhen, operated by Regus. It lists 32 private offices, sized from 5 m² to 46 m², with room capacities running up to 18 people. The published starting rate is CN¥3,450 per person per month on a term of 24 months or more.
4. Teem Tower 27/F — Guangzhou
Teem Tower 27/F sits at 27/F, Teem Tower in Guangzhou, operated by Regus. It lists 17 private offices, sized from 4 m² to 21 m², with room capacities running up to 8 people. The published starting rate is CN¥1,680 per person per month on a term of 24 months or more.
5. Delixi Mansion — Hangzhou
Delixi Mansion sits at 9/F, Building A, Delixi Mansion in Hangzhou, operated by Regus. It lists 25 private offices, sized from 2 m² to 40 m², with room capacities running up to 16 people. The published starting rate is CN¥1,080 per person per month on a term of 24 months or more.
6. No. 668 Gaoxin Avenue — Wuhan
No. 668 Gaoxin Avenue sits at No. 668 Gaoxin Avenue, Hongshan District in Wuhan, operated by Regus. It lists 15 private offices, sized from 3 m² to 29 m², with room capacities running up to 11 people. The published starting rate is CN¥650 per person per month on a term of 24 months or more.
7. Digital Economy Industrial Park — Xi’an
Digital Economy Industrial Park sits at 6/F, No. 186 Jiefang Road, Xincheng District in Xi’an, operated by Spaces. It lists 39 private offices, sized from 4 m² to 89 m², with room capacities running up to 33 people. The published starting rate is CN¥1,150 per person per month on a term of 24 months or more.
8. Tianjin Golden Valley Center — Tianjin
Tianjin Golden Valley Center sits at 11F, Block One, Golden Valley Center in Tianjin, operated by Regus. It lists 22 private offices, sized from 3 m² to 102 m², with room capacities running up to 36 people. The published starting rate is CN¥1,150 per person per month on a term of 24 months or more.
9. Dingxin Building — Ningbo
Dingxin Building sits at No. 432, Middle Section of Zhenhai Avenue in Ningbo, operated by HQ. It lists 22 private offices, sized from 4 m² to 25 m², with room capacities running up to 10 people. The published starting rate is CN¥380 per person per month on a term of 24 months or more.
10. China Resources Building — Chengdu
China Resources Building sits at 32F, China Resources Building in Chengdu, operated by Regus. It lists 18 private offices, sized from 3 m² to 41 m², with room capacities running up to 16 people. The published starting rate is CN¥1,550 per person per month on a term of 24 months or more.
11. Qihang Times Building — Suzhou
Qihang Times Building sits at No. 1 Guantang Road, Xiangcheng District in Suzhou, operated by HQ. It lists 34 private offices, sized from 5 m² to 48 m², with room capacities running up to 19 people. The published starting rate is CN¥350 per person per month on a term of 24 months or more.
12. Jinchuang Digital Building — Nanjing
Jinchuang Digital Building sits at 233 Longpan Middle Road, Qinhuai District in Nanjing, operated by Regus. It lists 27 private offices, sized from 2 m² to 101 m², with room capacities running up to 36 people. The published starting rate is CN¥950 per person per month on a term of 24 months or more.
If nobody on your team needs a desk and what you are after is the address itself, our guide to virtual offices in China covers the same 155 buildings.
How to request a private office on Wezoo
Private offices are not bookable online, in China or anywhere else on Wezoo. The flow is an enquiry, and it runs like this.
- Open the building page from the list above, or search your city on Wezoo.
- Check the capacity ceiling against your headcount, and the square-metre figure against how you actually work.
- Send the request with your team size, your preferred start date and the term you have in mind. The term is what moves the rate.
- The operator replies with what is genuinely free on which floor, and with a quote for that specific room.
- Ask anything you need in writing at that point, including what the address may and may not be used for.
One practical note for teams outside China: the published rate assumes the long term, so if you want three or six months, say so in the first message rather than working from the listed figure. All 155 buildings accept a one-month minimum, but the rate will not be the one on the page.
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