Transcript National Talent Strategy for China`s Transformation

National Talent Strategy
for China's Development
Professor Yonghua Song
China's Economic Performance for
the Past 30 Years
Achievements:
The 2nd largest economy and the 1st
biggest exporting country
Yearly GDP increase by 9.8% from 1997 –
2009
Much better life
……
Challenges:
Unsustainable development
Environmental impact
Unbalanced problems
……
China’s Economic Transformation from
Past 30 Years to Future 30 Years
From Labor Intensive to Talent Rich (从人口红利到人才红利）
From Made in China to Created in China （从中国制造到中
国创造）
From Attract Capital to Attract Talents (从招商引资到招才引
智）
From hardware to software (从重硬件到重软件）
From Investment driven to talents driven(从投资拉动到人才
拉动）
From using domestic talents to international talents (从面向
国内人才资源到面向国际人才资源）
From Wang Huiyao
China’s National Talent Strategy: A
Strong Country through Talent-Rich
Chinese President Hu Jintao
addresses a CCP and State
Council conference on national
talent held from May 25 to May 26
2010 in Beijing. Hu has called for
the creation of a more competitive
and innovative talents in the country,
with the focus on training more topnotch specialists.
China’s First Medium and Long-term
Talent Development Plan (2010-2020)
The general goal of the plan till 2020 is cultivating a
group of talents with reasonable structure and high
quality, creating the comparative advantage of China in
talent competitiveness, entering into the talent-rich
countries and laying a talent foundation for the socialism
modernization to be basically realized in the middle
period of this century.
China’s First Medium and Long-term
Talent Development Plan (2010-2020)
The plan will increase the ratio of citizens with a higher
education background in the work force from 9.2 % in
2008 to 20% by 2020.
The plan stresses six categories of talents 1) political
leaders, 2) entrepreneurial talents, 3) professional
innovative-oriented talents, 4) highly skilled talents, 5）
agricultural talents and 6)social work talents.
Total talent pool from currently 104 million will increase to
180 million by 2020.
China’s First Medium and Long-term
Talent Development Plan (2010-2020)
These objectives will be achieved through:
1. Innovative Systems and Mechanism
2. New Talent and HR-related Policies
3. National Talent Programmes
“National Thousand Talent Program” to
Attract High-level Overseas Talents
Started at the end of 2008, Chinese
government launched most
liberal and ambitious Thousand
Talent Program
In 5 to 10 years time, China central
government will attract 2000 top
level overseas scholars,
scientists, engineers,
entrepreneurs and senior
financial managers
“National Thousand Talent Program” to
Attract High-level Overseas Talents
Attracting oversea talent into China
through competitive working and
living packages
and
through new policies such as
green card for foreign residents,
and issuing talent visas.
“National Thousand Talent Program”
to Attract High-level Overseas Talents
Up to now, over 2263 overseas talents have been
recruited through this program. Among them, 1290
are of foreign nationality and 111 are non-Chinese
original.
They have been making significant contributions in
various fields.
International Collaborations and
Exchanges in Talent Development
Learn from each other: Canada Research Chairs (CRCs)
Education as a foundation for talent development
Graduate education and research
“National Thousand Talent Program”:
www.1000plan.org