A special area for exhibition and promotion of international professional services was set up as a new session for this year’s CIEP at Hall 1 of Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center over the weekend.

The 2,000-square-meter area includes booths of Shenzhen’s 13 international talent communities introducing their services for international talents.

The city has designated an institution and 12 subdistricts to pilot International Talent Community programs in a move to attract world-class talents to ensure its future development.

Under the program initiated by the municipal talent affairs bureau, each subdistrict is making efforts to set up service centers at communities that can offer one-stop foreigner-related services like accommodation registration, consulting about visas, work permits application and renewals and can organize activities and create an environment conducive to luring talents.

Dapeng Subdistrict Office, which is among the city’s first batch of units approved to set up an International Talent Community, attracted large number of visitors to its booth at the 19th Conference on International Exchange of Professionals (CIEP) held in Hall 1 of the Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center over the weekend.

The booth showcased seven focal points of Dapeng’s efforts in luring talents, and included Dapeng’s history, culture, ecology, living and work conditions as well as supporting policies and services for international talents.

Currently there are 205 foreigners in Dapeng New District, of which 45 are high-level talents at the municipal level and above. In November last year, Dapeng Subdistrict Office was approved as a site to establish an International Talent Community.