More efficient measures should be taken to ensure that foreigners with criminal records are banned from working in China.
China is increasingly drawing expertise from the four corners of the world and the day of the "Chinese Dream" is dawning, said Liu Yanguo, deputy chief of the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs.
Expats chose Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin and others as China's 10 most attractive cities for foreigners this year.
Results of the "2010 Amazing China - the Most Attractive Chinese Cities for Foreigners" was announced on Jan 5, 2011.
China conferred the Friendship Award, the highest honor given by the Chinese government to foreign experts, to 50 foreign specialists here on Sept 28, 2012.
Before he moved to Xiamen in 1988, William Brown had already lived in over 30 cities. This American bitten by the travel bug had no intention of staying in Xiamen longer than a year or two and he never imagined he would still be here more than two decades later.