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City continues to lure foreign experts
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SHANGHAI has been at the forefront in attracting professionals from abroad with more than 174,000 expatriates making the city their home — 19,000 more than two years ago, according to the Shanghai Foreign Experts Affairs Administration.
Among them, about 88,000 are foreign experts who have lived in the city for at least one year, which was up 3 percent compared to two years ago.
They worked in various sectors, including education, health, scientific research, economic development, creative design among many others.
The other 86,000 worked for Chinese and foreign enterprises or joint ventures.
In an earlier interview with Shanghai Daily, the administration’s deputy director Huang Weimao said the city government had spent over 10 million yuan (US$1.63 million) on funding 160 initiatives in 2013 to lure professionals to Shanghai.
Six year ago, the central government launched a recruitment program for global experts, also known as the “Thousand Talents program,” which aims to recruit about 1,000 top-level professionals from abroad to come and work in China in key fields such as economy, science and technology among others.
So far, 21 foreign experts working in Shanghai are under the central government’s program. Each of them receive a 1 million yuan subsidy from the central government, in addition to other subsidies provided by the local government.
Shanghai has consecutively topped the list of “the most attractive Chinese cities in the eye of foreign professionals” for the last two years, according to the administration.
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