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How hard is it for six foreigners to get Chinese green cards?

On April 2, the entry exit administration of Shanghai Public Security Bureau issued six permanent residence identity cards, also known as "China green card". Among the people who won the "green card" this time, there was a Nobel Prize winner who is now a distinguished professor of a university in Shanghai. Many people cut their heads to go abroad. In fact, China's green card is the most difficult one in the world. Let's see how high the gold content of China's green card is.

How hard is China's green card?

When Chinese people are exhausted by getting an American green card, few people may know about China's' green card 'system. If a foreigner is caught on the street and asked if he has a Chinese 'green card', I'm afraid he will get a negative answer.

If you can catch one, nine out of ten this person is "rich or expensive", because of the nearly 640000 foreigners living in China, less than 5000 have Chinese "green cards".

And the United States can issue more than one million 'green cards' in one year, 200 times more than the total number of foreigners who hold Chinese' green cards'. Foreign green cards attract tens of millions of Chinese immigrants every year. However, China's "green cards" always seem to be "out of the door".

Bill Gates and Buffett can't get China's green card

'is Bill Gates and Buffett good enough? Does he want to settle down in China? No, because according to the current system, he doesn't have the Chinese working experience required by the current regulations!' this popular online joke is not actually a joke. China's' green card ', that is, foreigners' permanent residence permit, is ridiculed as' the most difficult green card in the world', because foreigners don't get it 5000 people.

The standard is very strict

In 2004, China adopted the international practice for the first time and implemented the permanent residence permit system. Finally, China's "green card" system has detailed rules for implementation. At that time, the Chinese government sent the first permanent residence permit to Han Chun, who was 83 years old and had lived in China for 56 years. Before he came to China, Han Chun was an expert in nuclear physics and a classmate with Yang Zhenning. He was one of the few female scientists who participated in the first batch of atomic bomb research and manufacturing in the United States. After that, she gave up nuclear research and came to China to engage in agricultural research with her husband. Most of the first foreigners who got China's "green card" were experts like Han Chun, who lived in China for decades.

If foreigners want to obtain China's "green card", they must first be accepted by the local public security bureau, then they need to be reviewed by the provincial public security department (bureau), and finally they need to be approved and issued by the Ministry of public security, which will take about half a year. The validity period of alien permanent residence permit is divided into 5 years and 10 years. It is divided into four categories, i.e. investment, employment, relatives' investment and special contribution. According to a report provided by the Ministry of public security to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress in April last year, by the end of 2011, there were 4752 foreigners with permanent residence permits, including 1735 high-level foreign talents and their families.

Take Beijing as an example. By the end of 2012, there were 911 foreigners holding China's "green card", mainly including relatives and special contributions. According to public information, beishangguang holds nearly half of China's green cards. However, some provinces in the West are rare, and some of them even stay in single digits.

Dai Liang, who has lived in Shanghai for 10 years, doesn't have a Chinese 'green card' among his foreign friends. 'they're not the boss of the global 500, and they don't invest in China. 'according to the regulations, if it is an investment immigrant, the registered capital actually paid by foreigners in China needs at least 500000 US dollars, and they must pay taxes for more than three consecutive years. This standard seems to have little attraction for foreigners.

Although he has been paying taxes in China for many years and speaks fluent Chinese, he found that he can only apply for 'special contribution' if he wants to apply for 'green card', which also accounts for one third of the winners of 'green card' in China. 'the provisions on special contributions are very vague. No one told me how to define them. I can only ask all Chinese institutions and companies that have cooperated to issue written materials to prove my contributions in this country. '

Lack of attraction

Dai admitted that he didn't want to be Chinese because it meant he had to give up French citizenship. This is also the real idea of many European and American foreigners who hold China's "green card". Take Hong Kong as an example. From 1997 to 2012, the Immigration Department of the SAR Government approved more than 12000 people to join Chinese nationality. The original nationality of these applicants mainly includes Pakistani, Indonesian, Indian, Vietnamese and Filipino.

In the eyes of some Chinese, the "green card" in the west is a dream. Nowadays, foreigners strive to obtain the "green card" in China, which is a sign of China's strength and attraction. According to Liu Guofu, a professor of North technology, China's' green card 'threshold is too high. 'the current policy is not conducive to the introduction of talents. The most important thing is that it is difficult for those who want to apply to meet the requirements, and those who really need to attract are not necessarily willing to come. '

The proportion of international immigrants in the population of a country is one of the standards to measure the degree of internationalization of a country. The figure of European and American countries can reach 10% to 15%, while that of Asian countries is generally low, for example, Thailand is about 1.7%, while China is less than 0.1%. In 2012, a total of 1202 foreigners received the Chinese version of the "green card", while the number of people who received the American version of the "green card" in the world during the same period was 1.03 million, 832 times that of China.