Shenzhen Market Briefing:
Shenzhen has the highest GDP per person in Chinese cities and has been proved a highly potential market in Southern China. Shenzhen is called “the City of Migrants”, with a lot of elite immigrants from all parts of China during the “Golden Rush” period (1980-2000) of Shenzhen’s fast development ( it is also called “Shenzhen Speed” ), thus it is said that Shenzhen has the highest proportion of families that can afford to study abroad, and they are also very open to Western education. It is a very promising market for high school and undergraduate studies in particular. Since it is a highly commercial and industrial city, the demand for business and finance, science and engineering is huge.
Shenzhen is very strong in secondary school education, and has a good number of famous secondary schools, like Shenzhen City Secondary, Shenzhen Experimental, and Shenzhen Foreign Languages Schools etc. There are 11 higher education institutes in Shenzhen; the largest provider is Shenzhen University with a student population of over 20,000. A large group of vocational training and executive training programs exist due to the huge demand for industry development.
EIC Shenzhen Office
It was restructured in May 2005 and has been expanding quickly ever since. It represents the institutes of Australia, UK, Canada, USA, France, Netherlands, Ireland, Singapore, and Hong Kong. Starting August 2006, IELTS training program was introduced into EIC Shenzhen’s product portfolio.
As one of a few legal overseas education service providers in Shenzhen, the office now offers one-stop overseas education services covering mainstream overseas education providing countries including Australia, UK, Canada, the US, the Netherlands and Ireland. The services involve school admission, visa application, other relevant services, and IELTS training courses.
EIC Shenzhen:
Address:EIC, Room 1501-1509, Floor 15, Building A, International Chamber of Commerce Building, Futian District, Shenzhen 518048
Tel:(0755)83363391,83363392
Fax:(0755) 8293 1872
Email:shenzhen@eic.org.cn
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