For decades, the majority of the world's engineers came from the developed economies led by the United States and Japan. That has changed dramatically over the past decade as mainland China's economy has rapidly escalated and demand exploded for new engineering talent in fast-growing industries such as the internet, telecommunications, transportation and manufacturing.
An estimated 1.3 million engineering students graduate in mainland China per year, according to Unesco. Data from the 2015 online survey of China's "most ideal employers" showed that many of the respondent engineering students prefer working with three of the country's largest hi-tech companies, which were named in the poll's top five results.
The survey was conducted by Universum, an employer-branding company based in Sweden, with 55,062 participating students. The data was collected between September in 2014 and January 2015.