Population and Employment
Population and Employment
Green Card for the Professionals
Shanghai has been constantly pushing ahead its talents program to attract more professionals to work in the city. As of the end of 2005, about 60,000 people who studied overseas were working in the city, and the number of technological businesses registered by these talents topped 3,200. Meanwhile,106,700 professionals, 2,800 of them from overseas, had received the special ``Shanghai Residence Card.'' Among the them, 73.3% hold a university degree and 8.2% hold a master or doctoral degree.
