BLRC is Lucent's Bell Lab in China, founded on Mar. 23, 2000, Bell Labs Research China (BLRC) is the first research laboratory Bell Labs established outside the United States.
BLRC is a center of technical excellence and innovation to strengthen the support to Lucent business units and customers in the China and Asia Pacific region. It primarily concentrates its efforts on applications. It develops innovative ideas, implements them by prototypes, and transfers these results to Lucent product houses and Lucent Worldwide Services (LWS). BLRC also do fundamental research in the fields of Internet technologies, software, wireless communications, optical networks, computer science, and applied mathematics.