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With just a year to go until Beijing’s self-imposed deadline to become an international hub of innovation, just 22,000 foreigners are living and working long term in the Chinese capital. The estimate, from a report compiled by the Beijing International Talent Exchange Association and released at a forum late last month, is well down on the 37,000 foreigners reportedly working in the city a decade ago. The report did not give comparisons for previous years, but it said fewer foreigners had taken up long-term jobs in the city in recent years, to the point where they account for just 0.2 per cent of the capital’s workforce and 0.1 per cent of its population.
