Criteria (Category A, B, C) for Foreigners Employed in China


NowShenzhen   |   June 19, 2018

According to the new policy from May 2017 of China State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs (SAFEA), foreign employees will be divided into three categories A (High-end Foreign Talents), B (professional talents) and C (Other foreigners meeting the demand of the domestic labor market) for corresponding classified management.

I. Category A (High-end Foreign Talents)

Can get 3-5 years’ work permit and residence permit.

Some can get 5 years’R work visa.

Category A foreign talents, subject of the “green channel” and “admissible absence for procedure” services, include scientists, science and technology leading talents, international entrepreneurs, special talents and other foreign high-end talents urgently needed in the economic and social development of China. The general six main categories are as below:

(A) Selected for the Domestic Talents Programs;

(B) Conforming to the international criteria of professional achievement;

(C) Foreign talents fulfilling the market demand for government-encouraged posts;

(D) Innovative and entrepreneurial talents;

(E) Outstanding young talents;

(F) Graded 85 points or more in Score Table;

Among the above six general categories, mainly include:

  1.  Talents appointed for senior management or technical posts in central enterprises andtheir subsidiaries, the global or regional headquarters of the world top 500 enterprises, national high-tech enterprises;
  2.  Former senior managers, key R & D members of the headquarters, deputy general managers or above and R & D chief of the second-tier branches or regional headquarters of the world top 500 companies ;
  3.  Foreign talents whose salary income is 6 times or higher than the local average annual income of the previous year. For Shenzhen, annual salary income should be 538560RMB (monthly salary should be 44880RBM) or higher, average salary will be adjusted around in Jul every year;
  4. Senior managers or technical staff employed by domesticand foreign medium-sized businesses ; the chairman of the board, the legal representative, general manager or the chieftechnical specialist appointed by small-sized foreign-invested businesses inline with the government-encouraged industries specified under “Foreign Invested Industries Guide Catalogue”and “Catalogue of Foreign Invested Competitive Industries in the Central and Western Regions” ;
  5. Graded 85 points or more in the score table.

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II. Category B (Foreign professional talents)

Can get one-year work permit and residence permit.

This category mainly includes:

(A) Foreign professionals with a bachelor degree or above and 2 years and above related work experience;

(B) Skilled talents with qualification certificates and with annual salary income is 4 times or higher than the local average annual income of the previous year. For Shenzhen, monthly salary should be more than 29920RMB, average salary will be adjusted around in Jul every year;

(C)Professionals graded 60 points or more according to Score Table.

For foreigner without bachelor degree, please add our WeChat:13684991963 for solutions.

III. Category C (Other foreigners meeting the demand of the domestic labor market)

Can get one-year work permit and residence permit.

This category includes:

1. Foreign employees in line with the relevant regulations concerning the employment of foreigners in China;

2. Foreigners engaged in some temporary or short-term (no longer than 90 days) posts;

3. Foreigners under the quota system management, including young foreigners coming to China for internship under intergovernmental agreements, foreign students in line with the relevant regulations, foreign graduates from overseas institutions of higher learning, foreigners engaged in long range fishing and other special fields.

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