Jane Lai
THE largest yet two-day international professional job fair in China came to an end Saturday, drawing nearly 100,000 visitors and helping over 16,800 people find jobs.
The Conference on the International Exchange of Professionals (CIEP) attracted the largest number of international and domestic enterprises, overseas students and visitors seen since the annual State-level event was first held in the city in 2001.
According to the fair organizers, exhibitors had found ideal candidates for over 16,800 vacancies.
More than 3,600 professional exchange and cooperation agreements were signed during the event, and 90 meetings were organized at which companies and institutions exchanged ideas.
At this job fair, the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs (SAFEA) approved nine other international organizations to register in China for holding professional exchange activities. So far, there are 408 such registered organizations, 124 of them are expertise associations and the others are training centers.
The SAFEA also approved 401 domestic institutions and organizations to recruit foreign cultural and educational experts, bringing the total number of foreign experts in the country to just under 6,500.
The fair incorporated an overseas students exchange fair, promotional fairs offered by different provinces and cities, and a medium to high-level professionals job fair and forums.
The Shenzhen Forum has become one of the most professional and influential expertise forums since it was launched four years ago.
Several big names from the international academic community attended the forums, including Nitin Nohria, dean of Harvard Business School in the United States, Ji Baocheng, president of the Renmin University of China in Beijing, and Zhang Bigong, president of Shenzhen University.
More than 2,000 institutions and companies from 50 countries and regions attended, as well as more than 6,200 government organizations.
