Guizhou Shuanglong Airport Economic Zone recently issued a plan to expand the numbers of top talents locating there, to develop its opening-up to a higher level, according to zone officials.
The plan formulated 18 measures in five areas, including recruiting outstanding expertise from at home and abroad, broadening recruiting channels, training high-level staff, stimulating the vitality of their innovation and entrepreneurship and improving the human resources environment.
Officials said the zone will implement the talent recruitment project and the outstanding young talent reserve plan. Focusing on the aviation industry, high-tech intensive industries and high-end consumer goods manufacturing industries, it will aim to recruit top people and train urgently needed staff.
By 2025, the plan is to attract two top high-level talents or deputy general manager-level senior managers from Fortune 500 companies or the main founders of unicorn companies, five entrepreneurship and innovation teams with international or domestic leading technologies, more than 50 high-level innovation and entrepreneurship teams, as well as 1,000 high-level professionals.
The zone will move to actively promote the establishment of a schools-enterprise cooperation mechanism. The aim is to build a deeply integrated development platform for the zone, universities and enterprises, for their mutual development, exchanges of staff, co-organization of events, information interaction and resource sharing.
For overseas experts locating there by flexible recruitment, within three years, a maximum of 100,000 yuan ($14,056) per person per year and a maximum of 300,000 yuan per employment unit will be provided.
A subsidy of 200,000 yuan to 1 million yuan will be provided for the successful introduction of high-level talent by college alumni associations and celebrities; high-level talent introduced by companies through headhunting and other intermediary agencies will be subsidized by up to 1 million yuan; while high-level talent and expert teams directly introduced by enterprises will be subsidized by 200,000 yuan to 1 million yuan.
In terms of stimulating the vitality of talent innovation and entrepreneurship, the zone is willing to support enterprises to build various national and provincial R & D platforms. It will also encourage talent to carry out innovation and entrepreneurship through maker spaces and incubators.
A subsidy of 6 million yuan will be granted to newly recognized, national engineering technology research centers and key laboratories. Subsidies of 1 million, 500,000 yuan, and 300,000 yuan will be awarded to outstanding national, provincial and municipal entrepreneurship incubation demonstration bases.
In addition, the zone will add 200 high-quality talent apartments by the end of 2025 -- to comprehensively solve the difficult housing problems of various recruits, while improving the talent services environment.