Recently, State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs announced that Guangzhou won the honor of the Most Attractive Chinese Cities for Foreigners in 2014 Amazing China for the third time after its previous successes in 2011 and 2013, said Guangzhou Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau. Amazing China, as the only domestic activity voted by foreign talents working in China, is actually a list of Chinese cities for attracting foreign brains. The six-month activity, attracting more than 20,000 foreign talents for online voting and more than 1,500 ordinary foreign experts for voting under real names, selected 10 Chinese cities at last, namely, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, Tianjin, Qingdao, Hangzhou, Suzhou, Xiamen and Kunming.

 

Guangzhou won numerous praises in three A-level indexes, i.e., policy environment, political affairs environment and working environment. Guangzhou got the highest score in Incentives of Supportive Policies for Startups among the 18 indexes. It also scored higher than the average points for the indexes including rights and interests protection in policy environment, completeness of organization establishment in political affairs environment, remuneration and treatment in working environment, and kid’s education environment and social public civilization in living environment. These reflect Guangzhou’s notable advantages in attracting foreign talents.

It is said that each year more than 30,000 foreign talents come to work in Guangzhou and more than 4,500 foreign experts have lived in the city for one year and above, ranking high in China. Amid foreign talents working in Guangzhou, there are academicians from foreign academies of sciences, professors at foreign famous universities and even winners of Nobel prizes.

 

Source: Guangzhou Daily, April 17, 2015