| By Yu Ran SHANGHAI - Shanghai has China's second-largest population of foreigners and overseas Chinese, and 27.3 per cent of them have come to the city purely for jobs, according to a report released on Monday by the municipal statistics bureau. A total of 104,300 residents, more than 50 per cent of the city's foreigners and overseas Chinese - people from Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan - came to the city primarily for long-term work or short-term business in 2010, said the report, which is based on the sixth national census conducted in November 2010. This is the first time foreigners and overseas Chinese were counted in the census. "Shanghai has seen a rapidly increasing flow of foreigners coming for jobs over the past three to five years, and the trend continues and is expected to grow significantly in the near future, given the booming local economy," said Sun Haode, director of the labour and employment centre for foreigners under the labour and social security bureau in Shanghai. Sun said that he and his team are working to help local enterprises recruit foreigners, sign work agreements and apply for work permits for them. According to the report, foreigners in Shanghai stay on average for 21 months, with people from South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Canada staying the longest. |
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