Government moves to keep young foreign talent here in Shanghai
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IN a bid to retain foreign talent educated in Shanghai, the city’s Education Commission will publish a list of available internships.
Yesterday, 11 companies and public institutions were recommended by local universities and internship openings will be published on the multi-lingual web site www.study-shanghai.org from next year.
Ding Xiaodong, vice director of the Shanghai Education Commission, said the new measure is intended to retain more foreign talent to stay in Shanghai.
International students with at least a Master’s degree from a Shanghai university can now get a one-year work visa right after graduation if they have job contracts with companies located in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone or the Shanghai Zhangjiang National Innovation Demonstration Zone.
“We asked the universities and colleges to share information about companies that are already hiring interns among their international students, and we encourage those companies to offer more opportunities,” Ding said.
On the first list of 11, there are local and international companies from manufacturing, high-tech, trade and service industries and two hospitals. The commission said the list will be renewed every year.
Wu Xiaojun, vice dean of the International Cultural Exchange School of Donghua University, said they recommended Shangtex, which can take six or seven international students from the university every year.
“Classroom knowledge alone is not enough for international students to become competitive job seekers after graduation, anywhere,” he said.
“Many Chinese companies like Shangtex are looking to set up branches in foreign countries and to explore the world market, and they’re increasingly recruiting native speakers to perform these tasks.”
Cao Bin, Chairman of Worldnese Translation Co, one of the companies on the list, said they’re ready to recruit more foreign interns.
“We have been able to take up to 15 international students as interns every year in the past two years, and we hope to recruit over 30 this time, covering roughly the same number of languages,” he said.
International students who have interned in Shanghai said the experience was helpful.
Lia Chien Lankford, a third-year student at Fudan University, recently interned at an international startup selling innovative water bottles. She was responsible for managing its social network accounts.
“Working in a multi-cultural office, I learned to approach problems from different angles and got a deeper understanding of the way of doing business here in China,” she said.
In the past year, more than 1,500 international students in Shanghai interned at more than 850 companies and institutions, and it’s estimated that there will be an increasing number of foreign students studying in foreign countries who come to intern here in the coming years, the Shanghai Education Commission said.
There were 56,000 international students in Shanghai last year, a 30 percent increase from 2010, and 18,000 of them were studying for degrees, according to the commission. The government’s scholarships for international students stood at 70 million yuan (US$10.2 million), double the initial amount in 2006.
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