50,000 foreigners in Shanghai
(Chinanews.cn)
Updated: 2006-07-12 10:26
The number of foreigners currently employed in Shanghai has exceeded 50,000,
reached 51,000, according to statistics recently released by the Shanghai
Municipal Bureau of Labor and Social Security.
Of the employees from 152 countries, the top 10 nationalities they belong to
are Japan, US, ROK, Singapore, Germany, Malaysia, France, Canada, UK and
Australia.
In term of the employment structure, the foreigners working in Shanghai
present the characteristics of "three highs"—high position, high academic level
and high proportion of employment by foreign-invested companies
Ninety-nine percent of these people are administrative personnel or
technicians, 90 percent have bachelor degree or above, 2.5 percent are doctoral
degree holders or postdoctoral researchers, and 86 percent work at
foreign-invested companies or the representative offices of foreign
establishments.
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