Jining attracts top talent with precise matching

Jining, an important industrial city in Shandong province, is boosting its high-quality development by connecting local industry needs with top-tier talent from China's major innovation hubs including Beijing, Shanghai, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and other key cities such as Jinan, Qingdao, Wuhan, Xi'an, and Hefei.

Jining is committed to becoming a magnet for talent. The city has organized 43 talent matchmaking events, reaching employment agreements with over 12,000 professionals for 1,935 enterprises. Jining's recent tech talent recruitment forum for the robotics and UAV industry in Beijing and its strengthened cooperation with Tsinghua University highlight its efforts. At Tsinghua, 337 PhD candidates have resolved 328 technical issues, generating over 170 million yuan ($24.62 million) in economic benefits.

Jining has also developed 16 high-level innovation platforms with national research institutes this year. The research institute of Lingjing Robot (Shandong), co-founded with Peking University, has filed 15 patents and achieved an output value of more than 100 million yuan. The city has also introduced 10 academician-led teams, with 103 cooperating academicians and a record 22 overseas high-end talents selected for national programs.

In the future, Jining plans to enhance talent and tech cooperation with high-end talent hubs nationwide, and to improve the collaborative empowerment mechanism across the integration of industry value, talent, education, innovation, and financial sectors to attract more high-end talents and professionals.