In 1989, Vedan evaluated every country in Southeast Asia as a potential location, and eventually signed a memorandum of understanding indicating that it planned to locate its new plant in the as-yet-unbuilt Pudong area of Shanghai.
一九八九年，味丹看遍了東南亞各國，甚至在中國大陸上海埔東還只是紙上計畫時，就簽訂了意向書。