Expats vote Shanghai most attractive Chinese city
April 17, 2018 Category China News Round-up, Weekly
Shanghai has topped the list of the most attractive Chinese cities for foreigners for the sixth consecutive year, according to the “Charming China: the most attractive Chinese cities in the eyes of foreigners” ranking, which was launched in 2010 by the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs in Beijing. Foreigners evaluate the cities in four categories: expat-friendly policies, governmental administrative capacity, and working and living environments. “Shanghai is an amazing city for Chinese and non-Chinese residents alike. It displays a sincere appreciation for diversity in so many ways – architectural, linguistic, artistic, culinary, and academic,” said Vice Chancellor of New York University Shanghai Jeffrey Lehman, who has been named one of “The Most Influential Foreign Experts During 40 Years of China’s Reform and Opening-Up.”
“Here we find a cosmopolitan environment where a wide variety of ideas can interact with one another and create new approaches to achieving humanitarian objectives. It is a natural magnet for the curious, a natural bridge from China to the rest of the world,” Lehman said. The cities that made the top-10 are Shanghai, Beijing, Hefei, Qingdao, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Suzhou, Chengdu, Nanjing and Guangzhou. This year’s ranking was released at the opening ceremony of the 16th Conference on the International Exchange of Professionals in Shenzhen. The survey was conducted between November last year and February this year, and was completed by 30,000 foreign professionals throughout China via paper and online voting. Four Nobel laureates took part in the survey: Dutch physicist Gerardus ’t Hooft, Israeli biochemist Avram Hershko, Israeli material scientist Danny Shechtman, and Dutch-British physicist André Geim.
There are 215,000 foreigners working or starting up businesses in Shanghai, accounting for 23.7% of the total on the Chinese mainland. By the end of March, the city had 52 foreign experts who have won the Chinese government Friendship Award, and 1,145 high-level overseas professionals who have been selected into the national Recruitment Program of Global Experts, topping other areas in the country, the Shanghai Daily reports.
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