Guiyang Economic and Technological Development Zone (GETDZ) has recently issued 20 preferential policies to promote the gathering and development of innovative and entrepreneurial talents, according to local media reports Nov 12.
The new policies are aimed at making every effort to attract, cultivate and retain talents in various ways by establishing a talent think tank to promote the development of high-standard and high-quality economy and society.
According to these polices, the zone will implement plans such as gathering talents and training of special talents in key fields, strengthen the construction of a talent innovation platform, create an ecological environment for talents to live and work in peace and contentment, strengthen the professional service of human resources, improve the guarantee mechanism for the priority development of talents, and specifically carry out work from 20 aspects such as supporting talents' economic costs, guiding talents, and increasing the numbers of talents.
In the next five years, the development zone will focus on the introduction and cultivation of more than 10 industry leaders who will master international and domestic leading technologies to lead the development of the medium and high-end manufacturing industries, due to the urgent need for more than 100 innovative talents and more than 1,000 high-skilled talents.
At the same time, the zone will implement a training plan for special talents in key fields, strive to cultivate more than 10 talents who are proficient in foreign languages, familiar with the policy of opening-up and with the international economic operation rules and laws and regulations in three to five years. It will also cultivate a batch of interdisciplinary talents through the construction of a networked, open and independent lifelong education system
Furthermore, in terms of retaining talents, the zone will strengthen talent services, rely on the spatial layout of the city's southern new town, explore and promote the construction of public service in scientific and technological innovation and scientific research bases, incubation bases, college students' entrepreneurship parks, human resources industrial parks and other projects by an applied technology research and development center; and build a characteristic talent town integrating the functions of residence, education, medical treatment, business, cultural exchanges; and optimize the environment for the enrollment of talents' children and their spouses' employment, in order to ease the concerns of talents.