Dongying pulls out all stops to attract talent
With preferential policies and considerate services, the Shandong city of Dongying has become an alluring destination for high-caliber professionals from China and abroad.
Dongying has seven industrial startup parks for professionals from the overseas, said Li Quanmin, head of the city’s human resources and social security bureau.
Dozens of science and technology leaders have now settled in these parks, bringing with them rich research experience in such industries as financial services, modern logistics, biomedicine and electronic information, Li said.
Among them, three are specialists on the list of China’s 1,000 Talent Program, a national program to recognize and award high-caliber professionals — be they Chinese who have returned from overseas or foreigners.
To attract more talented people, the city government of Dongying offers a range of favorable polices, including startup funds, human resources support, financial services and free accommodation, according to Li.
He said 10 million yuan ($1.64 million) in funding has been allocated for recruiting and training skilled professionals every year, and another fund totaling 20 million yuan will be invested to offer incentives for innovative research and development.
The government also selects and awards the top two talented people who have made outstanding contributions to science every two years. Each of them will get a reward from 300,000 to 500,000 yuan.
“With these efforts, Dongying has become an ideal destination for domestic and international talent, especially those in the high-tech fields,” Liu Yanguo, deputy director of the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs, told China Daily.
He said the city has complete infrastructure for people to do research and development.
In the Dongying Economic and Technological Development Zone, for instance, there are 25 provincial and Statelevel research institutions, three post-doctoral innovation centers as well as two workstations for academicians from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering.
The zone now has more than 700 high-tech projects in a variety of sectors, including information technology, biomedicine, new materials, software engineering and advanced manufacturing.
The zone has become one of the major sites for developing new materials and other hightech products in the country.
Some of the projects there have been supported by the nation’s top scientists.
These include a 600-millionyuan lithium battery facility developed by Wang Taihong and his colleagues. Wang is a “Cheung Kong Scholar”, a title recognizing the country’s leading scientists in some frontier sectors. When completed, it is expected to be China’s major battery production facility for high-capacity vehicles.
Another high-tech company, Shandong Sinocera Functional Material Co, appointed Yang Aimin, an expert on advanced materials from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, as its chief technical officer.
With his help, the company developed a patented technology for producing the new material barium titanate. The innovation has brought the company 1 billion yuan worth of revenue and won a gold medal at the China Patent Awards this year.