ALMOST 10,000 overseas personnel have come to work in Shenzhen each year in recent years and the number is expected to further increase now that China is a WTO member, the Daily Sunshine reported.

　Half the overseas employees in Guangdong Province were in Shenzhen, the paper said.On average, more than 3,000 foreigners and 5,000 Hong Kong and Macao residents were permitted to work in Shenzhen each year.

　They are mostly scattered in international companies, enterprises involving foreign investment and the service sector. Some were hired by big State-owned and private enterprises such as Huawei and Ping An as high-ranking personnel.

　Shenzhen has been encouraging senior technicians and management professionals from overseas to work in Shenzhen.Shenzhen has set up service networks at city, district and township levels to facilitate overseas employees’ employment approval procedures.(Li Jing)