China attracts 400,000 foreign experts every year
( 2003-09-23 14:39) (Xinhua)
China is attracting more
"foreign experts" to work in the country due to rapid, stable economic
achievement and improved working environment.
The annual number of foreign experts has risen to over 400,000,said Zhang
Jianguo, deputy director of the State Bureau of Foreign Experts Affairs.
In the early years of the opening-up, foreign experts worked mostly in the
fields of production, education and news publishing,said Zhang. However, he
added, nowadays their choices extended to law, finance, major projects and
governmental affairs covering all Chinese provinces, autonomous regions and
cities.
Zhang was speaking at a seminar marking the 20th anniversary of Deng
Xiaoping's speech on "utilizing foreign intelligence and expanding the opening
to the outside world" held in Lanzhou, capital of Gansu Province, northwest
China.
In 1983, late senior Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping spoke of the importance of
utilizing foreign intelligence to speed up China's modernization drive. "China
must invite foreign experts to major projects and developments in all fields,"
said Deng.
Since then, the number of foreign experts working in the country has
increased rapidly. And more than 600 foreigners have been given "Friendship
Awards" by the Chinese government.
China would continue to improve legal systems and the working environment so
as to attract more foreign experts, Zhang said.
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