1.Educational ConditionsShanghai boasts not only an adequate educational system, which consists of various universities, colleges, middle schools, primary schools and adult education schools, for domestic education, but many schools for the children of working staff from overseas, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. A survey in 2002 showed that there were 25 international schools covering kindergartens, primary schools, junior schools and senior schools in Shanghai.
2.Human Resources
   Shanghai is divided into 18 districts and 1 county, encompassing 153 towns and 3 townships. Some 13.34 million people are the permanent residents and the city has a total population of 16.74 million (including the floating population). By the end of 2001, Shanghai had employed 7.52 million people. Of the total, 24.5% were hired by the state-owned enterprises and institutions, 35.5% were employed by collectively owned units, and 40% found jobs in foreign invested companies, private units and other economic entities.
   Shanghai’s talent qualification is at the leading position of China, and the productivity of unit human cost is rather high. Shanghai is well known not only as a city possessing abundant talent reserves, but also as one gathering talents from both at home and abroad. Some 50 universities and colleges are located in Shanghai and the students have exceeded 330 thousand. Shanghai has different level of the technical personnel up to 696.8 thousand, and in average there are 525 different kinds of technical personnel per 10000 persons. More than 1000 research and development institutions are located in Shanghai.
  
   3.Talents Attracting
   So far Shanghai has taken practical measures, with Talents Flexible Flow and Shanghai Green Card as the most famous ones, to attract demanded talents. Talents Flexible Flow encourages free-flow of talents, while Shanghai Green Card provides them with residence permit. In Shanghai there are over 32 thousand talents coming from overseas, accounting for 20% of the total in China and nearly 50 thousand permanent experts from overseas, Hong Kong and Macao, taking up 40% of the aggregate.
  
   4.Public Health
   With regard to medical security, there are about 4,600 medical institutes in various types, having more than 70 thousand sickbeds, including over 460 comprehensive hospitals, 26 CDCs, 10 women and children health centers. There are more than 100 thousand professionals in this field, including about 50 thousand doctors in Shanghai. Shanghai also has an extensive health care service network among the communities. So far, among the 18 foreign-invested hospitals and over 60 foreign-invested clinics approved by the government of China, 25 are located in Shanghai.
  
   5.Urban transportation
   Shanghai has built 2 subway lines and 1 light railway line. Furthermore, it has the 1st magnetic levitation railway in China. It is scheduled that the total length of rail transportation will increase to 233 kilometers in 2005 from the present 65 kilometers and the lines of rail transportation will grow to 15 with the length totaling 400 kilometers.
  

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