In a bid to attract talented foreigners, China will soon start issuing multiple-entry visas, valid for up to five years instead of the present rule of one year.
The fresh regulation was endorsed by five ministry-level departments in late September and released on Tuesday, stipulates that four groups of international professionals can benefit from the new long-term visa. Zhang Jianguo, Director of the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs, said that foreigners must already be employed to apply for the visa.
‘We hope the visas will encourage more international experts to work here,’ Zhang told China Daily. Currently all foreigners working in China are issued one year ‘permanent resident’ visas which needed to be renewed every year.
Liu Guofu, an immigration law specialist at the Beijing Institute of Technology, said the government is targeting key groups like those in managerial positions in the multinationals, specialists in education and science-related fields and renowned figures in culture and sport.
DRAGON NOW WORLD’S LARGEST SMARTPHONE MANUFACTURER
China has become the largest manufacturer of smartphones in the world, shipping over 200 million units last year.
Chinese shipments of smartphones totalled 224 million units in 2012, making the country the world’s largest smartphone producer, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
In 2012, over 730,000 Chinese apps were launched on the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad platforms, and the number of apps in China Mobile’s online Mobile Market approached 150,000, Xinhua quoted the China Academy of Telecommunication Research under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, as saying in a statement. Beijing-based research firm Analysys International predicted that China’s mobile Internet market will reach 429.6 billion yuan (USD 68.19 billion) in 2015. China added 50.9 million Internet users in 2012, bringing the total to 564 million at the end of last year, according to data released on Tuesday.
The fresh regulation was endorsed by five ministry-level departments in late September and released on Tuesday, stipulates that four groups of international professionals can benefit from the new long-term visa. Zhang Jianguo, Director of the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs, said that foreigners must already be employed to apply for the visa.
‘We hope the visas will encourage more international experts to work here,’ Zhang told China Daily. Currently all foreigners working in China are issued one year ‘permanent resident’ visas which needed to be renewed every year.
Liu Guofu, an immigration law specialist at the Beijing Institute of Technology, said the government is targeting key groups like those in managerial positions in the multinationals, specialists in education and science-related fields and renowned figures in culture and sport.
DRAGON NOW WORLD’S LARGEST SMARTPHONE MANUFACTURER
China has become the largest manufacturer of smartphones in the world, shipping over 200 million units last year.
Chinese shipments of smartphones totalled 224 million units in 2012, making the country the world’s largest smartphone producer, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
In 2012, over 730,000 Chinese apps were launched on the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad platforms, and the number of apps in China Mobile’s online Mobile Market approached 150,000, Xinhua quoted the China Academy of Telecommunication Research under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, as saying in a statement. Beijing-based research firm Analysys International predicted that China’s mobile Internet market will reach 429.6 billion yuan (USD 68.19 billion) in 2015. China added 50.9 million Internet users in 2012, bringing the total to 564 million at the end of last year, according to data released on Tuesday.