Joaquim NASSAR: recipient of Shanghai’s first unified work permit for foreigners

At the end of 2017, Shanghai ranked first in the nation in terms of work permits issued to foreigners. The percentage of top-level talents (type A) reached 15.83%, far exceeding the national average. In the year of 2017 alone, Shanghai issued 34,551 foreigner work permits, accounting for 1/4 of all issued permits in the nation. 110,426 foreign talents were introduced and there are now 215,000 foreigners employed in Shanghai.

Why do these foreign top-level talents choose to work in Shanghai and what role does the city of Shanghai play? What do they expect from the city’s future? What does the 40 years of reform and opening up mean to them? With these questions, Eastday.com interviewed a representative of this group of people, the first to receive Shanghai’s first unified work permit for foreigners—Joaquim NASSAR, the French dean of The SJTU–ParisTech Elite Institute of Technology.

(French dean of the SJTU–ParisTech Elite Institute of Technology Joaquim NASSAR interviewed by Eastday.com)