Result for the election of "2010 Amazing China - the Most Attractive Chinese Cities for Foreigners" is announced in Beijing on January 5, 2010.
Beijing, Shanghai, Dalian, Hangzhou, Shenzhen, Tianjin, Qingdao, Xiamen, Yantai and Wuhu are selected as "the 10 Most Attractive Chinese Cities for Foreigners".
Another 10 cities are nominated including Nanjing, Wuhan, Guilin, Sanya, Chendu, Changchun, Changsha, Lanzhou, Dali and Nanning.
From June to November, 2010, this Selection has attracted more than 179,000 foreign participants who voted on-line, and the ballot covers 353 cities, at the prefecture level or above, in mainland China (exclusive of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan). The judging panel consisted of 40 foreign experts, including 39 Chinese Government Friendship Award recipients, such as Tsung Dao Lee, Chinese-American Physicist; Evgeny Kasperskiy, esteemed specialist in the international anti-virus area; Richard David Jackson, President of Shenzhen Development Bank; Morihiko Hiramatsu, initiator of the "One Village, One Product" movement; Pedro Nueno Iniesta, Executive President of China Europe International Business School (CEIBS); Daniel J. Dudek, Chief Economist of the Environmental Defense, USA; Edwin Charles Maher, Host of English Service, CCTV International; and senior foreign expert Soeda Shuhei. Talented foreigners and foreign experts participated by casting their votes based on two general aspects: "city environment for working and entrepreneurship", "city living environment" and 10 detailed indexes. Finally, the results for "2010 Amazing China- the Most Attractive Chinese Cities for Foreigners" and the shortlisted "2010 Amazing China - the 10 Most Attractive Chinese Cities for Foreigners" comes out.