Practical Training of Young Professional and Technical Talents

Practical Training of Young Professional and Technical Talents

It expands the scale of the young professional and technical talent. After the first conference of national talent work held in 2003, the whole nation paid more attention to the comprehensive training, the number of expansion and quality improvement of the professional and technical talents which be seen as the most importance in the talent work. Firstly, the state has established project of the talent construction, created social environment of strength professional and technical skills. “Millions of Talents Project” has been born out. Academician system has highlighted the meritocracy. The special government allowance system has highlighted the dedication. Secondly, the growth in the number of professional and technical talent appeared a small peak. As of 2008, total professional and technical talent in China has reached 46.86 million, of which contained 28 million talents in state-owned enterprises, five times of the total in 1978. And high-level professional and technical talent has been increased. In 2008, there are 1,378 academicians, 5,206 outstanding experts, 158,000 experts who enjoy special government allowance, 4,100 talents who selected to be candidates of National Talents Project, 70,000 postdoctoral researchers, and 497,000 talents who returned from overseas (People’s Daily, 2010). In this period, a large number of technology leaders and talents with high innovation capacity have emerged, who become pillars of technological, economic, and social development of our country. Also, a large number of young talents with the potential ability and creative skills have emerged, who become the reserve force leader of high-level talent.

It made innovation for high-level training mechanism of young talents. First of all, the party and state created a “Millions of Talents Project” in 2004, which aimed to cultivate academic and technology leaders in the younger generation. The goal of this project is to cultivate and bring up hundreds of outstanding scientists who can be up to the level of the world frontier science and technology, foster thousands of leaders in various technical fields with the leading domestic level, and cultivate tens of thousands of excellent young talents who have achievements and development potential in various fields. Secondly, based on the concept of West Development, it had to create the talent plan of “Western Light”. In this plan since 2004, it has annually selected more than 260 professional and technical talents from the western area as a visiting scholar to do research and train in eastern institute, colleges, and universities, which promoted exchanges and common development between west and east young talents. Since 2011, based on the “Western Light” project, it has started the training plan to abroad which promoted west young talent to become international level of professional and technical talent. Finally, in 2012, the state has started “high-level talents plan for special supporting” (also known as the “Million Plan”) which faced all talents in the country. This plan has ready to use about 10 years to select and support a number of outstanding talents and young talents in natural science, engineering technology, and the field of philosophy and social science. This plan will create a strong force of innovation for our country, create massive high-level innovative talents, and provide talent to support construction of innovative country.

It attracted the foreign intelligence to gather young professional and technical talents. “National Long-term Talent Development Plan” pointed out that we “must vigorously attract high-level and urgently needed talents

THOUGHT AND PRACTICE OF CULTIVATING YOUNG TALENT IN CHINA

from overseas, focus on the independent cultivation and introduction of overseas talents simultaneously”. Through international cooperation and exchanges, the state can obtain the necessary scientific research talents, science and technology information, in order to create a high-quality and technical talents, to achieve the exchange and sharing of intellectual achievements. Since the first conference of national talent work, the state has taken a team of talent back to China for introduction of overseas talents. In 2008, Central Committee formulated “the view of the implementation of overseas high-level talents introduction” (as the “Thousand Talent Plan”). The Central Organization Department jointly with the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Science and Technology, the People’s Bank, State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and other departments, imported 662 overseas high-level talents in three batches. From 2011, the state has started the “Thousand Young Talent Plan”, in order to explore and attract young professional and technical talents who have active thinking, creative passion, and innovation ability. Domestic colleges and universities, research institutes, the central enterprises had the introduction of 1,035 overseas talents. Through layers of screening, the state first identified 143 talents to provide support, most of them came from Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton University, Stanford University, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge and other schools in the world, as well as Germany Max-Planck-Institute, Volkswagen and other well-known research institutions and enterprises. They have settled and worked in University of Science and Technology of China, Peking University, Tsinghua University and other domestic famous universities, research institutions, the central enterprises. As of 2008, the state has had more than 140 various overseas scholars pioneer park. And more than 20,000 returned students from abroad have worked in the park. Above all, they have become an important force in promoting independent innovation and shortening our advanced technology gap with the world.