German national and resident of Xi'an Dieter Michell-Auli, along
with 19 other foreign residents, has been invited to serve as a
local police supervisor, sources with the Xi'an Exit-entry
Administration said on Friday.
Dieter is the general manager of a local venture belonging to
Siemens, while the other foreign residents are all experts from
local universities or businessmen working for Chinese or foreign
companies. All of them travel frequently and are very familiar with
the immigration entry and exit service in Xi'an.
"We hope that these supervisors will help us to improve our
service, such as staff's attitudes, efficiency and probity," said
Wang Zhiqiang, director of the local exit-entry administration.
There are about 2,100 foreign residents in Xi'an, the capital of
northwest China's Shaanxi Province, which received 678,000 foreign
visitors in 2002.
(Xinhua News Agency April 19, 2003)