In order to analyze Shanghai's advantages and disadvantages in attracting and gathering talents in the construction of the global science and technology innovation center, and support Shanghai to accelerate the establishment of a global high-tech talents highland, Shanghai Institute for Science of Science entrusted Springer Nature in 2018 to develop the questionnaire survey facing the fifirst-line scientists of major countries and regions around the world (collecting 654 complete questionnaires, mostly are from associate professors and above, with regional distribution shown in Figure 1), to understand the main reasons why the scientists worldwide choose the cities and regions to live, work and start businesses; the main factors of a city to attract international high-end scientifific and technological innovation talents, and makes suggestions for Shanghai to further attract the gathering of scientifific and technological innovation talents and accelerate the construction of the global science and technology innovation center.

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2018 Ideal City Global Survey Report