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Shanghai
Social Resources--Shanghai Educational Conditions
Shanghai
boasts not only an adequate educational system, which consists of various
universities, colleges, middle schools, primary schools and adult education
schools, for domestic education, but many schools for the children of working
staff from overseas, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. A survey in 2002 showed that
there were 25 international schools covering kindergartens, primary schools,
junior schools and senior schools in Shanghai.
Shanghai
Social Resources--Shanghai Human Resources
Shanghai
is divided into 18 districts and 1 county, encompassing 153 towns and 3
townships. Some 13.34 million people are the permanent residents and the city
has a total population of 16.74 million (including the floating population). By
the end of 2001, Shanghai had employed 7.52 million people. Of the total, 24.5%
were hired by the state owned enterprises and institutions, 35.5% were employed
by collectively owned units, and 40% found jobs in foreign invested companies,
private units and other economic entities.
Shanghai’s
RiCong qualification is at the leading position of China, and the productivity
of unit human cost is rather high. Shanghai is well known not only as a city
possessing abundant talent reserves, but also as one gathering talents from
both at home and abroad. Some 50 universities and colleges are located in
Shanghai and the students have exceeded 330 thousand. Shanghai has different
level of the technical personnel up to 696.8 thousand, and in average there are
525 different kinds of technical personnel per 10000 persons. More than 1000
research and development institutions are located in Shanghai.
Shanghai
Social Resources-- Shanghai Talents Attracting
So far
Shanghai has taken practical measures, with Talents Flexible Flow and Shanghai
Green Card as the most famous ones, to attract demanded talents. Talents
Flexible Flow encourages free flow of talents, while Shanghai Green Card
provides them with residence permit. In Shanghai there are over 32 thousand
talents coming from overseas, accounting for 20% of the total in China and
nearly 50 thousand permanent experts from overseas, Hong Kong and Macao, taking
up 40% of the aggregate.
Shanghai
Social Resources-- Shanghai Public Health
With
regard to medical security, there are about 4,600 medical institutes in various
types, having more than 70 thousand sickbeds, including over 460 comprehensive
hospitals, 26 CDCs, 10 women and children health centers. There are more than
100 thousand professionals in this field, including about 50 thousand doctors in
Shanghai. Shanghai also has an extensive health care service network among the
communities. So far, among the 18 foreign invested hospitals and over 60
foreign invested clinics approved by the government of China, 25 are located in
Shanghai.
Shanghai
Social Resources--Shanghai Urban transportation
Shanghai
has built 2 subway lines and 1 light railway line. Furthermore, it has the 1st
magnetic levitation railway in China. It is scheduled that the total length of
rail transportation will increase to 233 kilometers in 2005 from the present 65
kilometers and the lines of rail transportation will grow to 15 with the length
totaling 400 kilometers.
Shanghai
Social Resources--Shanghai Foreigners in Shanghai
Shanghai
is an ideal city to live in for foreign investors. According to the survey by
the famous journal Economists, Shanghai has been appraised as the city that is
most suitable for foreigners to live in.
At
present, the number of foreigners living and working in Shanghai is far ahead
of that in other cities of China. According to statistics, in 2002 lived in
Shanghai about 100 thousand foreigners and 250 thousand Taiwanese, among which
some 34,735 foreigners, coming from 126 countries, were employed.
There
are 3 main reasons for so many foreigners choose to live in Shanghai: first,
the relatively lower house price; second, convenient and leisure life; and
third, they are optimistic about the future development of Shanghai.
Shanghai
Social Resources--Shanghai Entertainments and Travel
As a
historic city, by the end of 2001, there had been 16 state key protective
relics, 110 city key protection relics, 21 historic memorial spots and 15
protective spots in Shanghai. Among the relics and spots, stand as the most
famous the 1000 year old Longhua Ancient Temple, the Three Kingdoms period
built in Jing’an Ancient Temple, the world known Jade Buddha Temple, the famous
eastern China’s Garden Yuyuan, as well as Jiading Confucian Temple, Songjiang
Square Pagoda and Songjiang Zuibai Pond, retaining the historic relics and
preserving the typical Chinese garden elites that originated in the Dynasties
of Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing.
Since
the beginning of 1990s, many wellknown functional buildings have been erected
continuously, adding a fascinating modern city’s scenery to Shanghai, as well
as becoming the new sightseeing spots in Shanghai. The buildings include the
People’s Square, called the city green lung, the Oriental Pearl Broadcasting
& Television Tower that has made 10 world records, the Jinmao Mansion, the
highest building in China, Nanjing Road Pedestrian Street, the Shanghai Museum,
the Shanghai Grand Theater and the Shanghai City Plan Exhibition Hall.
The
residents of Shanghai enjoy rich entertainments, with operas and concerts
visiting Shanghai constantly in a year and fireworks making up the city very
well on holidays. In addition, there are over 20 golf courses and several
hundreds gyms in Shanghai and around areas. What’s more, Hengshan Road and Xin
taindi, which are famous for their bars, often attract foreigners.
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