The Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the CPC passed some guidelines on recruiting highly skilled workers to contribute to Zhejiang's goal of becoming a highly innovative province last month. The province is upgrading its human resource services in an effort to bring in more global talent and increase innovation and entrepreneurship. 

The Zhejiang Lab, based in Hangzhou, is a research institute jointly established by the Zhejiang provincial government, Zhejiang University, and Alibaba Group in 2017. Impressed by the institute’s development orientation and operation model, Shi Junhui, a former postdoctoral scholar at the California Institute of Technology, joined the Zhejiang Lab at the beginning of this year and is currently leading a research team on biological imaging technology.

In order to help high-profile experts live up to their potential, the Zhejiang Lab has improved things like employee mobility, post evaluations, and many other aspects of human resource management. With its flexible operation model, the Zhejiang Lab has set an annual goal of recruiting around 1,100 skilled workers from around the world and has already signed contracts with more than 800 such workers.  Zheng Yuhua, deputy director of the Zhejiang Lab, believes that the lab's operation model fully respects the research habits of talent and makes it easy for them to devote more of their time, energy, and resources to working on what truly matters to them.

The guidelines emphasize solving problems that high-profile talent often encounters so as to create a suitable environment for innovation and entrepreneurship.

Li Junxiang recently moved to Jiaxing, a city in Zhejiang province, and became deputy director of the Ageing Science Research Center of the Yangtze Delta Region Institute of Tsinghua University. It took less than a week from the time he filed his online application to the time he arrived at his government-sponsored talent apartment.

The latest data show that all 11 cities in Zhejiang achieved a net inflow of talent last year, with Hangzhou and Ningbo taking first and second place nationwide in terms of the inflow rate of mid- and high-end talent.