今年年初，苏州市委人才工作会议召开，全力打响“人到苏州才有为”的工作品牌。
“As a city upholding openness and inclusiveness, Suzhou generates global opportunities and embraces the future. Suzhou is striving to foster clusters of innovative industries in the era of digital economy. Never in history has Suzhou been in greater need of talented people and never in history have talented people been readier to realize their dreams in Suzhou,” said Cao Lubao,Member of the Standing Committee of CPC Jiangsu Provincial Committee and Secretary of the CPC Suzhou Municipal Committee, at the Conference on Talen-related Work of CPC Suzhou Municipal Committee. Suzhou is endeavoringto build its own brand of talent-related work.
Boosted confidence
Prof. Chi Lifeng
Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and foreign member of the Academia Europaea
“The watchwords of ‘take talents to Suzhou and embrace a promising career’ fully represent the yearning of Suzhou for talents and demonstrate the city’s confidence in buildingits own brand of talent-related work.”During the 13th Five-year Plan period (2016-2020), registration of talented people in Suzhou surged 41 percent to 3.21 million; the city had had a total of 300,000 high-level talents, or an increase of 70 percent. The city’s number of talents recognized as national entrepreneurial talents has topped the country ranking for 9 consecutive years. Suzhou has also led the province in the number of provincial innovative and entrepreneurial talents for 15 years in a row and been nominated as one of the “Most Attractive Cities for Expats” for 10 years running.
Suzhou has formulated a series of policies to widen the channels for attracting talents and deepen the integration of industries and talents.
▲Opening Ceremony of the 13th Venture Week for International Elites in Suzhou 2021 and the 2nd “Suzhou Scientists Day”
▲“Win the Future” Venture Contest for International Entrepreneurs
▲“Campus Day” Event
Huang Fan
Co-founder of CSJ Laser (Suzhou) Co., Ltd,
Huang was studying abroad in Université Paris-Saclay in 2015. By pure chance, Huang participated in the “Win the Future” Venture Contest for International Entrepreneurs and won the first prize. Through the contest, Huang came to know the preferential policies and high-quality business environment that Suzhou offered to talents around the world, which contributed to his decision on starting business in the city.
Now, CSJ Laser (Suzhou) has evolved into the second company in the world and the first in Asia that is capable of mass-producing white laser headlights.
Free from Worries
Jean-Fran ois Vergnaud
French representative of RUC Sino-French Institute
"Suzhou gives me a feeling that it is like a bowl of local-style noodle soup. The taste is quite delicate at the first bite. But as you go on eating the noodle, you find it more and more appetizing. Then you are completely in love with it."
He added thatthe opening environment of Suzhou makes it an ideal place for academic research and education.
To make a good start in the building of “take talents to Suzhou and embrace a promising career” brand, Suzhou will work out detailed and concrete measures and conduct research on the key issues that constrain local talent-related work.
From “40 New Measures for Talents” in 2016 to “New Measures for Talents (4.0 Version)” in 2020 and “15 Measures to Reform Talent System” in 2021, Suzhou has remained committed to improving its talent policy and system.
▲Distribution of “Gusu Talent Service Card”
▲“Su Show Talent” Policy Platform has served more than 600,000 talents so far
Chu Wenqiang
Deputy chief engineer of Inovance Suzhou
“The comprehensive services Suzhou have provided make us feel at home.”
Chu and his team overcame multiple key technological problems in 2019. They were recognized as different levels of talent and had more confidence in the city.
High technology
Suzhou will continue to accelerate the development of Gusu Lab, Dushu Lake Science and Education Innovation District, Taihu Lake Science and Technology Town and Nano-X Vacuum Interconnected Nanotech Workstation. Besides, Suzhou has built 79 city-level (or higher) R&D institutions and introduced more than 130 major research institutes;the number of technological innovation platforms jointly built by Suzhou and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) accounts for 20 percent of the total built by the CAS in China.
▲Gusu Lab has more than 400 members, over 90 percent of which are researchers, and more than half of them have a doctorate
Explore a “Suzhou Mode” for international talent
Suzhou is an open city with numerous overseas talents. Due to the differences in the criteria for talent evaluation, some talents with international professional qualifications may find it difficultto getrecognition in China. To give free rein to foreign talents, Suzhou takes the initiative to align with international criteria for talent evaluation and has accumulatively released 344 reference categories for qualification recognition in five batches.
▲Signing Ceremony of Strategic Cooperation of AHK Academy
▲“Taicang Cup” Sino-German High-end Manufacturing Vocational Skills Competition
Maximilian Butek
Chief Representative of the Delegation of German Industry and Commerce Shanghai
“The establishment of AHK Academy serves the needs of developing a new model for AHK Greater China, reorganizing training resources and promoting the building of talent pools. I’m grateful to Taicang for its hard work on helping German enterprises with difficulties.”
As the national strategy of integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta advances, Suzhou has stepped up its efforts to promote the application of technology achievements, inter-regional recognition of talents and integration of public services.
▲Family-based Residence Permit for Overseas Talent in the Yangtze River Delta Ecology and Greenery Integration Demonstration Zone
With the goal of creating a national high-level talent platform and building a great modern city for talent development, Suzhou will give full play to talented people in developing clusters of innovative industries, and strive to become a magnet for global talent, a “go-to” destination for overseas returnees to start business, a paradigm of innovative industries and also a vital city for venture capital and investment.
