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The policy of admitting foreign nationals for training is open to all industries. A sample survey conducted in 1995 on 3,664 approved training applications revealed the following distribution of industries with foreign trainees in Hong Kong in descending order:
Business nature of sponsoring company
Percentage
University/Tertiary Institution
20.8
Trading & Investment
18.9
Industrial Enterprise
11.2
Engineering
10.2
Banking
6.8
Shipping, Transportation, Property Management, etc.
6.8
Computer Industry
5.7
5.0
14.6
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Hotel Industry
Others
(Others included accountancy, airline industry, architect & design, human resources, insurance, multi-mass media publisher, legal field, telecommunication etc.)
The Immigration Department does not have a breakdown of the industries in which the trainees are engaged.
Under the policy for entry for training, the duration should not exceed 12 months. The duration of majority of training applications ranges from 1 to 6 months. The duration of some cases was as short as 7 days, while a few cases were of 16 months duration on exceptional basis.
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