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China, Booming International Personnel Market: Official
2001 China International Talent Fair opened in Nanjing
China has become one of the most attractive markets for international personnel in the Asian and Pacific regions, a senior official said at the 2001 China International Talent Fair opened Tuesday in Nanjing.
Attending the fair are over 2,000 representatives of 200 foreign expert organizations, talent exchange companies and training agencies from 21 countries and regions.
More than one million foreign experts have worked in China over the past 20 years during its reforms and opening-up, and 400,000 Chinese people have been sent abroad for studies, according to statistics.
In 2000 alone, 440,000 experts from other countries as well as from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan have worked on the Chinese mainland, eight times as many as that 10 years ago; while 40,000 people went abroad to study, 12 times as many as a decade ago.
Wan Xueyuan, director of the State Bureau of Foreign Experts Affairs, said the number of foreign experts working in China will continue rising during the next five years. Chinese government will try to offer more job opportunities for foreign professionals in such a vigorous market.
The fair will end on November 9.
The telecommunications and information industry, bioengineering and new pharmaceutical industry, laser-engineering-electrical industry, new materials, environment protection and resources recycling industry are the prior fields where top professionals are needed.
In the field of public administration, the government will further attract foreign experts to work in urban planning and designing, perfecting public facilities functions, ecology and environmental protection.
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