City told to improve services to foreigners

Guangzhou has been urged to develop a system to help improve the management of its growing number of foreign residents.

The city, capital of Guangdong province, is the southern gateway to the country and should also study and explore a new employment guarantee system for the city's foreigners, indicating those who invite and employ foreigners must take all responsibility for them, a senior legislator said.

"And Guangzhou should build special platforms for foreigners to seek translators and interpreters, medical treatment and related services, as well as the establishment of databanks for the overseas people," according to Cai Guoqiang, head of the committee of overseas Chinese, foreign, ethnic and religious affairs of the Guangzhou People's Congress.