Shanghai has most overseas residents

SHANGHAI - Nine out of every 1,000 people living in Shanghai come from foreign countries or Hong Kong, Macao or Taiwan, making it the Chinese mainland city that is most densely populated with overseas residents, according to a recent report.

The report, released by the Shanghai Bureau of Statistics, said that of the 23 million people who have lived in the city for at least three months, about 208,300 are from outside the mainland.

Nearly 69 percent of them are foreigners. And the most numerous members of that group are citizens of Japan, the United States and the Republic of Korea.