SiliconBeat

Hewlett-Packard announced plans to occupy an “advanced manufacturing complex” in West China to both “serve the fast-growing Chinese market and accelerate economic development in the region,” according to a press release put out today by the world’s biggest manufacturer of personal computers. HP plans to make “”state-of-the-art notebook and desktop PCs” at the 20,000-square-meter facility in Chongqing (its skyline at night is pictured) starting in 2010.

Chongqing is one of the fastest growing cities in China, according to the National Bureau of Statistics, which put its GDP last year at $410 billion with a growth rate of 15.6 percent over the prior year. The city has 500,000 university students and more than 1,000 research and development institutions.

“In addition to the educated work force, development conditions offered by the local government made the development attractive to HP,” said the company.