Intellectual Migration and Development of the Global City in Hong Kong

In the competition of urban development, Hong Kong remains its vitality of the global cities on the top 5 by GaWC (Globalization and World Cities) upon 2024. For maintaining its position, Hong Kong strengthens its policies on the quality of education in order to attract university students from abroad. Studies on this education-centred strategy should not only look at the ideas of policymakers, but also investigate the views, ideas, vision, and willingness of students from abroad. This study explores the attitudes and expectations of these students from mainland China. The data for the analysis is adopted from the surveys of the graduate students at Lingnan University. The questions under inquiry refer to the learning environment and the expectation for the career development.

In this study, we compose the framework of policy analysis in terms of intellectual migration. It integrates the contributing factors of education policy, employment policy, and migration policy. The influencing factors on individuals' choices for their personal and professional development are discussed, in the light of human capital, social capital, and cultural capital, engaged in the fields of education, employment, and immigration policies. The study reflects the general condition of education for mainland Chinese students in Hong Kong, and evaluate the effect of education service as the competing power in the global market.