The local government pledged to provide a better investment
environment and living facilities for trained people in the
coming five years, hoping to attract more professionals into
the city from around the world.
"Shenzhen
is in bad need of trained people to boost its development
in all aspects," Mayor Yu Youjun said.
"The high-tech
industry is set to be the city's economic backbone, and technical
talents play crucial roles in the sector," he added.
Starting last week,
Shenzhen officially deleted six human resource regulations
considered a stumbling block to luring professionals.
Earlier this month,
the city adopted 11 other policies, including authorizing
small enterprises to recruit workers from outside the city
and eliminating charges formerly imposed on non-locals caught
working without registered permanent residence cards.
Moreover, the local
government will arrange a recruiting team composed of high-tech
enterprises and municipal departments to visit the United
States in April, the Shenzhen Human Resource Bureau said.
This will be the
second such overseas recruitment trip by large high-tech companies
since 1992.
The two-week recruiting
journey, covering areas such as Boston and the northern California's
Silicon Valley will focus on hiring technical and management
professionals and overseas students in related majors.
Shenzhen officials
and corporate headhunters will host seminars, explain policies
and describe the Chinese city as an up-and-coming destination.
"We want people
who can research independently and innovatively," said
Shi Mengqun from PIJI Biotech Development Co Ltd, adding that
the company promised competitive offerings like company stakes
sharing and necessary facilitations for the overseas students.
With fluency in
foreign languages like English, overseas students are vital
for the city's development because they are familiar with
international practices and they have got many perspectives,
Chen Anren, director of the Shenzhen human resource bureau,
said.
Chen said the number
of trained people in Shenzhen will reach 750,000 by 2005,
an average annual growth rate of 8.2 percent.
The special economic
zone, located in South China's Guangdong Province, has a population
of over 4 million.
"We will not
lag behind cities like Beijing and Shanghai in terms of preferable
polices to woo talent to the city," Chen stressed.
Shenzhen has already
set up several high-tech areas, including an industrial park
and an investment park for overseas students.
(People's Daily
02/26/2001)
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