More than 30,000 senior positions will be available for overseas professionals at an international job fair to be held in Shenzhen from Nov. 30 to Dec. 1.

 

The Conference on International Exchange of Professionals, the first one of its kind to be held in Shenzhen, has already been staged in Nanjing, capital city of east China's Jiangsu Province, and Shenyang, capital of northeast China's Liaoning Province, since 2001, Shenzhen Evening News reported on Tuesday.

 

A meeting was held Monday by the fair's organizers to oversee the progress of the preparatory work, the report said. Ji Yunshi, vice minister of the Ministry of Personnel, Zhang Jianguo, vice chief of the State Bureau of Foreign Experts Affairs under the Ministry of Personnel, Shenzhen Mayor Xu Zongheng and Vice Mayor Liu Yingli were present at Monday's meeting.

 

The fair will be the largest of its kind in China, the News report said. Preliminary estimates show that no less than 800 expert organizations, training institutes, headhunting companies, professional associations and research institutes from more than 40 countries and regions will attend the fair. Some 5,000 domestic high-tech projects, training programs and technology research projects will be showcased at the fair.

 

In the past five years, about 36,000 overseas experts have joined Shenzhen's workforce annually, equivalent to several hundred daily, the newspaper said. From 1985 to the end of last year, more than 340,000 foreign experts had worked in the city, and more than 10,000 Chinese who completed their studies overseas had come to work in Shenzhen.

 

(CRI July 26, 2007)