At the closing ceremony of the 2017 Chongqing International Talent Innovation Entrepreneurship Symposium on Sunday, Chongqing Liangjiang New Area awarded Meng Min's pharmaceutical company 19 million yuan ($2.9 million) for its innovative project: a public service platform for biological medicine research development. "Our project will get a jumpstart with this generous support, and it will help me hire more high-level talent," said Meng, former chief scientist at Covance, one of the world's largest drug development companies. She is one of the hundreds of highly talented people attracted to this southwestern city in recent years as Chongqing aims to become an international cosmopolis by 2030. Born and raised in Chongqing, Meng returned to her hometown last year and started her own biological medicine company in Liangjiang, attracted by the fast growing pharmaceutical industry and favorable local policies. "Chongqing is the youngest municipality in China. You can reach your goals here if you have solid knowledge and skills," she said. In recent years, Liangjiang New Area, China's first inland State-level pilot zone for opening-up and development, has launched a large-scale talent recruitment program, such as the annual international talent symposium, which aims to attract highly-skilled individuals from home and abroad to start businesses in Chongqing. Over the weekend, more than 1,000 people from 18 countries and regions, including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Singapore, participated in the event. They are highly educated and top experts in the fields of information technology, renewable energy, biological medicine and manufacturing. There was one academician and 18 experts from the national Thousand Talents program. "The symposium has drawn increasing attention from overseas and greatly assisted our talent recruitment," said He Yousheng, deputy director of the Liangjiang New Area Administrative Committee. To encourage entrepreneurship, the new area has issued a series of policies and subsidies to startups, including rent cuts, tax cuts and seed money. "We will set aside at least 100 million yuan ($15.4 million) in talent funding each year, a 10-billion-yuan seed capital fund and over 1 million square meters of housing for talent," he said. In addition to financial and policy support, human resources experts attending the event said that the city needs to upgrade its "software", such as world-class international education and medical facilities. "Overseas high-level talent pays great attention to their children's education here and the quality of local medical services," said Jiang Ao, CEO of a consulting firm based in the United Kingdom that helps Liangjiang recruit. Chongqing boasts the world's largest laptop manufacturing base and China's largest vehicle production base. Since 2014, it led GDP growth in the country for 13 consecutive quarters with an annual average of 11.7 percent. In January last year, President Xi Jinping said during an inspection trip that Chongqing is "full of promise" and set to become an inland international logistics hub. silicone bracelets custom cheapcotton braceletscustom made rubber braceletsrubber wristbands custom cheapdebossed wristband
Tibet autonomous region has decided to make culture one of the region's pillar industries by the end of 2020, according to a press release of the region's cultural department on Thursday. Tibet is enriched with various cultures, including traditional crafts such as thangka painting, Tibetan incense, Tibetan paper production, weaving, sculpture, carving and metal forging. As one of the region's recent actions on culture preservation and development, the regional government issued a culture development plan for the 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-20) two months ago. The preparations for the plan began in 2014 with support of the Ministry of Culture. Zhou Hongyang, the deputy head of the Tibet Culture Department, said, "In the future, we will push the work of traditional cultural crafts with more opened mind and more pragmatic measures." Zhou said the region will work on three key measures. First of which is respecting the dominant status of the tradition and culture inheritors, and carrying out activities of traditional crafts in daily life. "The second is to formulate an implementation plan about the traditional cultural revitalization. The measures need to be detailed so as to make all levels of units to perform the work," said Zhou Hongyang. Norbu Tsering, the director of the Culture Industry Office of Tibet Culture Department, said the region has added culture in the region's planning outline of social development and national economy throughout the next five years. "Boosting cultural industry and striving to turn culture industry as one the region's national economic pillar industry by 2020," Norbu Tsering said. "The region will improve the systems of Tibetan unique culture industry, modern cultural market."
