Expand the scope of application for “R” (Talent) visa by making a full use of the policies on such visa.

We will expand the scope of applications for“R” (Talent) Visa from high-level foreign talents at the entry port and in China, and facilitate their entry and stay in China. High-level foreign professionals identified by Shanghai competent authority as talents, senior professionals of particular s… 

Improve the system of residence permit (B-Certificate) for overseas talents in Shanghai.

We will, as appropriate, properly extend the effective term of the B- Certificate for a period of up to 10 years, and make more favorable conditions governing applications for B-Certificates from S&T innovative talents so as to enable the certificate to give its full play to attraction and retenti… 

Solve housing problems for talents at a particular stage of their stay in Shanghai.

We will speed up our efforts to support the construction of affordable houses, centralized housing projects, agent-based house renting and other renting of public houses. We will standardize and optimize the commercial housing projects in the area of outer ring in Shanghai, requiring not less than… 

Integrate procedures to submit information of employees in respect of employment and social security.

Such information will be submitted collectively to the “One-Window” platform. An applicant may submit relevant information of its employees simultaneously when submitting the application for establishment of an enterprise. Upon establishment of the enterprise, the registration of employees in re… 

Establish a green channel for overseas talents to work and start business.

The new area of FTZ will implement the differentiated process to deal with applications for work permits by foreigners working in China on a pilot basis, and the system of “Notification and Undertaking” and “Acceptance Disregarding Incompleteness of Documents” applicable to the enterprises ide…