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A foreign teacher at Hailiang International School in Zhuji, Zhejiangprovince, interacts with pupils from a primary school for migrantworkers in the city's Taozhu street on March 4. Photo by Luo Shanxin /for China Daily Demand increases for teachers from abroad as more seek to learn English A set of measures will be further strengthened to better manage foreign experts in China,according to the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs. "Of the 540,000 foreign experts coming to China every year, the vast majority are high-qualitytalents with outstanding work records," Xia Bing, director of the administration's cultural andeducational experts department, said in an exclusive interview with China Daily. He said foreign experts of many different occupations have made an irreplaceable contributionto the country's decades of rapid economic growth and technological development. "About a third are working in cultural and educational areas," Xia said. "It is my understandingthat some who work as language teachers have donated their own funds to help poor studentsin remote areas in China, and some outstanding foreign teachers have even won the ChineseGovernment Friendship Award." Xia said the administration is also dedicated to perfecting the process of recruiting foreigntalents, such as making it more convenient for foreigners to enter and leave the country,bringing them into the social security insurance system, and providing more channels for themto make their voice heard and thus better blend in with society. | 
