As a city of immigrants, Shenzhen, with its good development opportunities, effective human resources incentive mechanism, and better living conditions, attracts a large number of talented people from other parts of China and of the world. In the past 20 years, Shenzhen has absorbed about 600,000 professionals and technical workers. The general quality of its population is rising all the time. In this new city of immigrants, the average age is below 30 years old, so people here are more innovative, more ready to accept new ideas and concepts, and more vigorous.

Shenzhen has three institutions of higher learning, and is building its own university city which covers an area of 100,000 square kilometers and mainly offers graduate education. Various famous universities including Qinghua University, Beijing University, and Harbin Institute of Technology have already set up graduate department in the University City. The annual enrollment of graduate students will be 7,000. Shenzhen has also set up a virtual campus jointly with 33key universities in China. Each of these universities will have representatives stationed in the virtual university to engage in research work and graduate education.

Every year, about 30,000-50,000 undergraduates, graduate students and PhDs descend on Shenzhen from prestigious all over the country. Many holders of intermediate and senior professional titles also choose to come to work in Shenzhen. They are joined by returning overseas Chinese students and professionals. Shenzhen boasts of the largest talents market in China, with the annual number of participants well over 1.5 million.

Shenzhen's social security system is complete and developed. It has so far set up unemployment aid, retirement pension, industrial accident insurance, and medical insurance. A complete social welfare system is in place. This in turn facilitates the flow of talents.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 [Origin:Shenzhen Government Website]