A five-month investigation by the Administration Committee of Zhongguancun Science and Technology Park covered 95 percent of IT companies in Zhongguancun. The result shows that there are somewhere near 4,000 enterprises engaged in IT related business staffed by 170,000 employees.
Employee Structure
The investigation showed that over 60 percent of the staff who worked in hardware or integration circuit design were from Beijing while those working in software and information services mainly came from elsewhere. Technicians from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and some foreign countries, made up a considerable proportion.
Gender Ratio
Fifty-nine percent of all employees were male and 41 percent were female. Among administrative personnel, the majority were male, at 83.3 percent.
Age Distribution
The average age was 28.8 with middle-ranking administrative staff at 31.46 and high-ranking administrators at 36.56.
Educational Background
A majority of 80 percent of staff had bachelor degrees or college degrees, 8.35 percent with master degrees and just 1.03 with doctorates.
In software and integration, staff appear to be better educated with 54.21 percent holding degrees and 9.96 with master degrees.
(China.org.cn by unisumoon, February 18, 2003)
