Tianhe Apartment, the first blue-collar apartment in China, was completed and put into use in 1994, which indicated the beginning of the large-scale investment in construction of employee apartments in TEDA. As a result of development over 26 years, the area has built and collected 38 employee apartments. With a total building area of 2.45 million square meters and more than 40,000 rooms, the housing demand of employees can be fully satisfied in the area. In both scale and management services, the employee apartments in the Area are at the forefront of the economic parks in China, helping to promote the settlement of enterprises and talents, and having become one of the core competences in regional investment environment.

The Apartment Management Center is the management department of the employee apartments in TEDA. It is responsible for the allocation of apartments invested by the administrative commission, security management, public services, and operation supervision of various apartments in the area.