Wendy Zhang/ Shanghai Daily news

Permanent residents of Shanghai are better educated, as 8.78 percent of the permanent population had college degrees or above last year, up 3.34 percentage points from 2000, according to a forum on population development yesterday.
Last year, a total of 1.61 million residents in the city had at least an associate degree or a secondary technical title, up 42.65 percent from 2000. The proportion of those working in agricultural (7.2 percent) and industrial sectors (37.3 percent) declined year-on-year, while those in the service industry (55.5 percent) were on the rise.
The city's total population continued to increase, with a growing number of migrant people. By the end of last year, there were 17.78 million permanent residents and 5.81 million migrants.