Shanghai attracts overseas students
( 2003-09-01 09:08) (China Daily)
Shanghai announced yesterday that it is launching a massive recruitment
campaign to attract over 10,000 Chinese who have completed high-level education
and training overseas in the coming two to three years.
Such a move is regarded by local officials as essential to creating a pool of
professional expertise that can strongly bolster Shanghai's envisioned future as
a global metropolis.
At the kickoff ceremony held yesterday, broadcast live on the web to overseas
Chinese students in the major cities of the United States, France, Britain and
Japan, the announcement of the first group of 1,000 local posts open for
overseas experts was made by senior city official Wang Anshun.
The posts involve more than 350 organizations in the city, including
municipal and district governmental departments, educational, financial and
medical institutions as well as a number of companies in sectors such as
automobile manufacturing, bio-medicine, microelectronics and integrated
circuitry.
"Shanghai's future development hinges largely upon its pool of educated and
trained people," said Wang.
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