China's Liepin Big Data Research Institute recently released a report outlining female talent within China from January to February of this year. Titled the "2024 Female Talent Data Insight Report," this report gave a panoramic sketch in female talent development among Chinese cities based on data collected by Liepin, one of the largest job recruitment websites in the nation.

According to the report, the average annual salary of male professionals in China was 30.90% higher than that of women in 2019. In 2023, this gap narrowed to 26.20%. During the first two months of 2024, the average annual salary of men and women in China was 242,200 yuan (about 33,645 dollars as of March 7) and 192,100 yuan (about 26,685 dollars), with men receiving a salary 26.06% higher than their female colleagues.

Judging from the top 20 cities with the largest proportion of female talent in January and February of this year, the report stated that more than 30 percentage of women from Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hangzhou and Guangzhou receive an annual salary higher than 200,000 yuan (about 27,783 dollars), ranking these locations among the top five. So, let's take a closer look at the top 10 cities in China with the largest proportion of female talent compared to the overall local population. 

10 Nanjing

Aerial photo taken on June 13, 2023 shows the Nanjing Olympic Center in Nanjing, capital of eastern China's Jiangsu Province. [Photo/Xinhua]

Percentage of female talent as in the total population of the city: 2.33%