Shanghai is to invite 1,015 professionals from Hong Kong Special Administrative Region to workin the Chinese mainland city. 
 
Sun Luyi, director of Shanghai Personnel Affairs Administration,said at a press conference that the posts for invited Hong Kong professionals are mainly in the service industry, accounting for 55.3 percent of the total, indicating Shanghai's demand of Hong Kong's quality professionals in the field.

He said Shanghai expects 142 professionals from Hong Kong's financial sector, 83 from tourism and hotel industries, 34 from logistics sector and professionals from the advertising industry, to work in Shanghai, the leading financial and industrial center of the Chinese mainland.

Sun said all of the posts will be offered by the municipal government, state-owned enterprises and non-public sectors.

He said his city is ready to provide more posts for professionals from Hong Kong's financial, exhibition and shipping industries, which are the core of Shanghai's economic development.

Shanghai Vice Mayor Zhou Yupeng said at the press conference that Shanghai will also welcome professionals from the exhibition marketing and exhibition center management sectors for the 2010 Shanghai Expo.

He said Shanghai is to introduce advanced management experiencefrom Hong Kong, an international trade, financial, shipping and information center in the Asia-Pacific region.

Zhou said, apart from inviting more Hong Kong professionals to his city, Shanghai will also send more people to Hong Kong for professional training.

Led by Shanghai Mayor Han Zheng, the Shanghai delegation has just finished a three-day study and exchange tour in Hong Kong, resulting in hammering out a framework for bilateral cooperation in eight fields.
 
(Xinhua News Agency October 29, 2003)