(Yicai Global) June 7 -- ASML Holding, the world’s biggest supplier of optical lithography machines used to make computer chips, plans to recruit more than 200 new employees in China this year to support the Dutch company’s growth in the Asian country.

Many areas of China were affected by the recent Covid-19 outbreaks, but ASML strove to meet customer needs and develop China’s integrated circuit industry by maintaining stable operations, The Paper reported yesterday, citing the firm. All of ASML’s projects in China are progressing as scheduled, it added.

In China, Veldhoven-based ASML has 14 offices, 11 warehousing and logistics centers, two research and development bases, a training center, and a maintenance hub, where more than 1,400 staff work.

Some ASML engineers volunteered to work at clients’ plants to ensure its machinery worked during the recent Covid resurgence, The Paper noted. Among them were semiconductor foundry Shanghai Huali Microelectronics and chipmaker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation.

Shanghai has started to return to normal life and work since June 1. ASML has been actively supporting government departments with this to steadily reopen and better serve the chip industry’s development in the city, the firm added.

Editor: Futura Costaglione