Foreigners a force that’s indispensable
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MORE than 900,000 foreigners were employed on the Chinese mainland in 2016, an indispensable force in the country’s development, a senior Chinese official said yesterday.
Foreign experts are important resources and will help China achieve economic and social prosperity, Zhang Jianguo, head of the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs told the 15th Conference on International Exchange of Professionals held in south China’s Shenzhen.
Foreign experts should be offered opportunities in sectors that have specific demand for them, he said, calling for measures to prevent “brain waste.” Meanwhile, unskilled foreign workers demanding high wages should be denied.
To attract more foreign talent, China has streamlined the paperwork needed to secure foreigners a work visa. The trial program has unified the previous two permits into a single work permit.
The number of foreign employees in China has increased at a rapid pace over the past decades.
In the 1980s there were fewer than 10,000 foreign experts working in China.
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