Shanghai Municipality, Measures for the Administration of Residence Permits

上海市居住证管理办法

June 27, 2013 | BY

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Shanghai is the first city to implement a point system for the non-municipality population.

Promulgated: May 28 2013

Effective: July 1 2013

Main contents: Shanghai implements a Residence Permit point system (Article 20). The Residence Permit point metrics system includes basic metrics such as age, educational background, professional/technical title and skill level, number of years of work and payment of social insurance in Shanghai, etc. and, based on the socioeconomic development of Shanghai and population service management requirements, there are also metrics for additional points, metrics for reduced points, and one-vote veto metrics (Article 21).

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