The "Office Requirements in Shanghai" survey, the annual survey conducted by Mori Building Co., Ltd., was first published in 2004 with the goal of assessing the office requirements trends of multinational firms in Shanghai. The respondents to this survey are senior executives involved in the decision making regarding their firms' office location and business set-up in Shanghai. This year the "Office Requirements in Shanghai" survey was distributed to 3,607 multinational firms in Shanghai, and of these 475 responded. The respondents cover organizations of all sizes in all major industry sectors.