Population and Employment

• Green Card for the Professionals
• Age Structure in Population
• Education Level of Population
• Employment
• Natural Changes in Population
• Population
• Life Expectancy

According to the sample survey of the 1% of the city’s population in 2005, 18.1% of the city’s permanent population aged six and above had received education at college level and above, 6.7 percentage points more than in 2000 when the fifth national census was conducted. Those with senior high school education accounted for 24.8% of the local population, up 1 percentage point while residents with primary and junior middle school education accountedfor 51.6%, a drop of 6.3 percentage points. In 2008, 99.99 percent of school-age children attended the nine-year obligatory education, 97 percent of junior middle school gradu-ates entered senior high schools, and 83.8 percent of gradu-ates of senior high school enrolled into colleges.