The 2023 Hangzhou International Talent Exchange and Project Cooperation Conference has just ended. During the conference, the Foreign Talent Research Center of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security released the list of "the most attractive Chinese cities in the eyes of foreign talents" in 2022, and Hangzhou ranked fourth. This is the 13th consecutive year that Hangzhou has been included in the list and has ranked in the top five for 5 consecutive years.
This conference is the first international talent event after the Hangzhou Asian (Paralympic) Games, and the international talent exchange in the post-Asian Games era has opened a new chapter, and the story of "the world knows the new Hangzhou again" is being staged. In the eyes of foreign talents, what is the charm of Hangzhou?How can Hangzhou be "more international" in the future?The reporter recently interviewed relevant experts and foreign talents.
Here it comes. I don't want to go to the city.
"The Most Attractive Chinese Cities in the Eyes of Foreign Talents" is the only authoritative list in China that is entirely selected by foreign talents. Let the foreign talents rooted in Sri Lanka be selected from personal experience, and the authority of the list can be seen.
We reflect the attractiveness of the city according to the three evaluation dimensions of job satisfaction, convenience of life, and environmental friendliness. According to the person in charge of the Foreign Talent Research Center of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, Hangzhou's performance is among the 42 participating cities in the country.
For example, in terms of job satisfaction, Hangzhou ranked first among the 42 participating cities in the evaluation of labor rights protection, salary and benefits, and career development. In particular, 95% of respondents believe that the performance of the employment contract is smooth, 877% of respondents are satisfied with the level of compensation, which is 69 percentage points.
At the same time, the leap of high-level science and technology innovation platforms such as the Chengxi Science and Technology Innovation Corridor and the Future Science and Technology City, the construction of a new laboratory system, and the gathering of famous universities and institutes such as Westlake University, Hangzhou High School of the National Academy of Sciences, and Hangzhou Institute of Medical Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have also built an important platform to attract foreign talents to innovate and start businesses in Hangzhou.
Hangzhou has also delegated power to employers, and since last year, it has launched a new model of 'three determinations and three evaluations' of talent classification and evaluation of catalogue identification, authorization identification, professional identification and industry evaluation, market evaluation and social evaluation, and has carried out talent authorization and identification in industry authorities, universities and research institutes, and key enterprises, and has identified a total of 11 high-level talents870,000 people, including many foreign talents. According to the analysis of relevant people from the Foreign Talent Research Center of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, in 2023, Hangzhou will carry out the pilot work of identifying foreign "high-precision and cutting-edge" talents in the city, which is also conducive to foreign talents to work in Hangzhou.
This series of reforms in the talent system and mechanism has stimulated the innovation vitality of foreign talents.
In terms of ease of living, Hangzhou scored first in the indicators of livable environment and public services. During the Hangzhou International Talent Exchange and Project Cooperation Conference, Huang Jiongjian from the United States participated in the Hangzhou Overseas High-level Talent Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition. He deeply understands, "Hangzhou is beautiful in the mountains, water, and air, and it is a city that you don't want to leave when you come." Falling into a more microscopic perception, from food, clothing, housing and transportation to life events, you can "get it done with one click" in the palm of your hand, and the "silky" feeling of Hangzhou's "digital life" makes foreign talents full of praise.
At this conference, Hangzhou also innovatively released the "Green Lotus" plan to gather young talents from all over the world. Through eight initiatives, including Qinghe Study Tour, Qinghe Yunpin, Qinghe Innovation Competition, and Qinghe Happiness, Hangzhou has been promoted to become a place that young people around the world yearn for.
However, the list also reveals a new trend: the attention of foreign talents to economic prospects has increased from 45 in 20188% rose to 59 in 20223%, which indicates that the focus of foreign talents has switched from the beauty of history and culture to the beauty of urban development.
Hangzhou is so attractive, so charming, so unique. Roger Wei, a distinguished professor at the School of Civil Engineering of Zhejiang University and a member of Italy, said. These three "so" just depict his feelings in Hangzhou.
In the post-Asian Games era, we will climb new heights.
The Hangzhou Asian (Paralympic) Games has once again focused the world's attention on Hangzhou, and also attracted more international talents to enter Hangzhou and fall in love with Hangzhou.
At station B, tens of thousands of foreign bloggers from about 20 countries and regions released the Asian Games-related **. Muhammad Bilal Khan from Pakistan, who has been doing business in Hangzhou for many years, said: "Almost all of my family and friends watch the Asian Games on mobile phones and live TV. ”
In the past month or so, Muhammad Bilal Khan has received more foreign friends in Hangzhou than in the past ten years combined. Before parting, a friend who used to know only Beijing and Shanghai said to Muhammad Bilal Khan: "I finally understand why you have been in this city for 15 years, it is really unforgettable." ”
A.T. Kearney recently released its 2023 Global Cities Index report. Hangzhou ranks 78th in the Global Cities Rankings, up 39 places from five years ago, making it the largest Chinese city to climb. Such a leap undoubtedly shows that the pace of Hangzhou's internationalization is accelerating, and its international reputation has been greatly improved.
The Digital Intelligence Asian Games has drawn people's attention to the background color of Hangzhou's "Digital City", and the recognition of the city's industrial map has become more obvious. Hangzhou is one of the first cities to embrace the digital economy, and the added value of the core industries of the digital economy currently accounts for nearly 30% of the regional GDP, which is higher than the national and provincial averages. The booming digital industry is also helping cities win talent.
Hangzhou is a highland of digital industry, and even has a certain right to speak in the world. On November 14, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Technical Committee on E-commerce Transaction Assurance released international standards for e-commerce in Hangzhou, two of which were extracted from Hangzhou's experience and applied to countries around the world.
Strategic emerging industries are the key to building a modern industrial system, and they are also the main front for generating and developing new quality productive forces. The layout of the plan for the new and the future is not difficult to capture at the 2023 Hangzhou International Talent Exchange and Project Cooperation Conference.
During the conference, the European and American Returned Scholars Association (Hangzhou Digital Medicine) released a three-year action plan, planning to achieve the goal of exceeding 20 billion yuan in investment and 50 billion yuan in corporate revenue. Behind this is the rising biomedical industry, which is also one of the five major industrial ecosystems built by Hangzhou. Hangzhou's generosity has attracted foreign talents. "It's a fertile ground for me to grow in. Kereou, a distinguished researcher at the School of Life Sciences at Westlake University and a member of Belarus, said that his confidence comes from Hangzhou's vigorous upward force.
He spent more than 7 years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his development of super-resolution expansion microscopy technology has been recognized by the global industry, and the kits based on this technology are being put into the domestic market. "Hangzhou has a policy environment and incubation system that encourages the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, which is attractive on a global scale. "I want Hangzhou to become the center of China's biotechnology industry, just like the San Francisco Bay Area in the United States." ”
Hangzhou also seized the opportunity of the post-Asian Games to innovatively launch the "Find Hz" event brand to promote Hangzhou's talent ecology to the world, and the conference attracted more than 700 overseas talents to visit Hangzhou.
On November 10, the Fifth Plenary Session of the 13th Hangzhou Municipal Party Committee proposed to implement the "Top Ten Climbing Actions" of the post-Asian Games, such as the integrated climbing action of science and education talents, the "double new" climbing action, and the green and low-carbon development climbing action.
This made David Chaplin, the life sciences officer at the Cambridge Science Park in the United Kingdom, can't help but praise it. The trend of scientific and technological innovation in Hangzhou has been strengthened day by day after the Asian Games, and he feels that Hangzhou and Cambridge have a strong similarity in the atmosphere of scientific and technological innovation. "Hangzhou is building a rich ecosystem for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, introducing various policies to attract global talents, paying more attention to the value of basic research, and trying to solve problems such as the transformation of intellectual property. He believes that there will be more entrepreneurial talents in Hangzhou.
Scientific and technological innovation has driven the influx of talents, which is bound to promote Hangzhou's industry to a higher level, forming a closed loop of mutual achievement between the megacity and outstanding talents. Today, the total number of talents in Hangzhou has reached 3.1 million, and the net inflow rate of talents has been leading for many years.
Crack. Growing pains.
The world's talent centers are spreading from Europe and the United States to Asia. Zheng Jinlian, deputy director and research director of the Center for Globalization (CCG), said that she has been studying the law of global talent mobility for a long time, and in 2022, her organization evaluated and analyzed the talent competitiveness of 38 major countries around the world and came to this conclusion.
Zheng Jinlian found that China and the United States have a clear competitive advantage in terms of talent scale, far outpacing the top rankings.
India, Japan, and Russia in the third, fourth, and fifth places. China is far ahead in terms of the number of people with higher education in the working-age labor force and the number of scientific researchers.
China's impressive performance on the international stage stems from the long-term layout of attracting international talents. From the perspective of the national urban system, almost every open, inclusive and competitive city will build itself into a "strong magnetic field" for international talents.
Shanghai is the first goose in the pattern of a talented country, with more than 290,000 returnees who have come to Shanghai to work and start businesses, ranking first in the country. The "Magic Capital" recruits talents with a world-class business platform as the core, and the scientific research and innovation platform Shanghai Light Source alone has attracted nearly 30,000 scientists from all over the world to Shanghai.
Moving southward, Guangzhou's Nansha District, located in the geometric center of the Greater Bay Area, is inviting global talents with unprecedented reform boldness. "Taking the opportunity of the construction of the country's first international talent special zone, Nansha has just issued a new policy of 'Nine Special Zones for International Talents' to attract overseas talents to innovate and start businesses. Zheng Houming, vice president of the Southern Institute of International Talents, said.
What is the reason for taking the introduction of international talents as an important strategic layout of the city?
International talents bring new technologies and ideas to the local area, and they are the dense 'tentacles' that connect the inflow areas with the forests of international cities. Zheng Jinlian revealed the relationship between development and talent. The help brought by international talents can indeed be seen and felt.
According to the data, in the past five years, more than 70,000 foreign experts have innovated and started businesses in Hangzhou, helping the industry to leap and accelerate core technology research.
90% of Westlake University's talents come from overseas, for example, Sawain, an academician of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, is leading a team to accelerate the progress of scientific research in the fields of brain-computer interface and biosensors in China. At present, Hangzhou's ranking among global science and technology innovation clusters has jumped to 14th.
In Robam Appliances, the steaming and baking machine developed by Korean expert Wen Guangcai is equipped with AI Zhitong, which recommends recipes with precise algorithms and automatically determines the maturity of food, and the current product sales have exceeded 700 million yuan. Under his leadership, Robam has grown a group of technical backbones in the fields of development, testing and technology.
Hangzhou, which is in the process of internationalization, will inevitably encounter "growing pains". Some foreigners living in Hangzhou expressed the hope that Hangzhou could increase the supply of cultural tourism consumption formats.
Experts also believe that in order to further improve environmental friendliness, Hangzhou can also focus on building an overseas city ecosystem, vigorously launch international characteristic blocks and schools, and further create a good talent ecology.