Table 3.

Number of foreign experts in Beijing between 2001 and 2013. What should be noticed here is that experts from Hong Kong and Macau were also calculated.

Source: 1) State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs, as cited in Huang 2013. Research on foreigners in Beijing. Beijing: China Book Press. 2) State Statistical Bureau and State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs 2016. 2014–2015 compilation of statistical survey data from experts working in Chinese mainland. China Statistics Press

Year	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2013
Number of foreign experts	26,696	19,598	28,118	28,332	32,402	21,802	32,982	78,093