In early 2005, Ji Qi created the Hanting Hotel Group, and the targeted customers were the business people. In less than 5 years, the group has had three brands, including the economic hotel--- "Hanting fast hotel", the middle-end of business hotel--- "Han Ting Hotel," and the Baiyuan hotel "Han Ting Sea Friends Inn.
" And the company s hotels covered Shanghai, Suzhou, Wuxi, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Ningbo and many other places. As of 2009, Hanting Group owns 236 hotels. While 7 days Inn owns 337 hotels, Home Inn has 621 hotels, and Jinjiang Hotel owns 325 hotels. Currently, this figure is constantly increasing.