The city of Qingdao, a coastal city of Shandong province, was recently honored as one of the most attracting cities for foreign skilled personnel in 2014. The honor was announced at an evaluation held by China's State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs.

Nearly 20,000 foreign talented personnel who had worked in China took part in the evaluation and voted for their favorable cities on the Internet. There were also more than 1,500 experts who filled out questionnaires and evaluated the 45 candidate cities and counties according to their policies for foreign skilled people and their working and living environments.

The other nine winners were Shanghai, Beijing, Tianjin, Shenzhen and Guangzhou in Guangdong province, Hangzhou in Zhejiang province, Suzhou in Jiangsu province, Xiamen in Fujian province and Kunming in Yunnan province.