Shanghai topped the list as foreigners' favorite city in the Chinese mainland in 2013, according to a survey released on Wednesday.
The results of the 2012 Amazing China - The Most Attractive Chinese Cities for Foreigners were released, with Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, Suzhou, Kunming, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Tianjin, Xiamen and Qingdao listed as the top 10.
Working in China can mean more opportunities for the foreign experts and the institutions in which they work.
China's major job fairs for foreigners have featured more high-tech and management-oriented positions.
China will become more open to introducing foreign experts this year and it will extend cooperation in talent exchange.
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.
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