Foreigners prefer to work in China’s new first-tier cities
According to Taiwan media, foreign expats no longer confine themselves in working in big cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen. Rather, smaller cities are their top choices to stay.
Global career social media platform LinkedIn says cities of “highly international” and “highly friendly environment to foreigners” are the two key factors that would affect foreigners’ choice in regard to where they would like to work. 28 percent of foreigners interviewed say multicultural environment is their most important consideration.
At the same time, since the green card scheme was introduced in 2004, about 7,000 foreigners have been granted permanent residency in the following ten years, whereas some 600,000 foreigners were estimated to have lived in China during the period.