More people willing to work overseas

Receiving twice the pay of his counterparts back home and working in exotic Ankara, Turkey, Li Hao, 27, may seem to have the ideal job.

Li knows well the bittersweet taste of working as an expatriate, which is becoming more common because of China's expanding economy.

"Compared with my colleagues who work with a clear focus, we in the Turkey office have to spread our energy more broadly, from taxes and customs to financing with banks. We must be ready for changes because of temporary arrangements," said Li, who has been working for an engineering corporation under a State-owned enterprise for a year and a half.