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Wuxi is extolled as "cradle of academician" and "cradle of education"and boasts more than 70 academicians of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering, who are native to or work for a long time in Wuxi, and 285.9 thousand professionals & technicians in various kinds.
Wuxi has 11 separate tertiary colleges as South-of-Yangtze-River University. There are 548 persons having junior college certificate or above in each 10 thousand people in 2004. The percentage of people, who have high education and aged 18 to 22, has reached 46%. There is an input of 25 thousand labor forces every year with additional 100 thousand technicians trained in recent two years, which could meet the requirement of foreign-invested enterprises.
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