1. National Talent Strategy for China's Development Professor Yonghua Song

2. China's Economic Performance for the Past 30 Years Achievements: The 2nd largest economy and the 1st biggest exporting country Yearly GDP increase by 9.8% from 1997 – 2009 Much better life ……Challenges: Unsustainable development Environmental impact Unbalanced problems ……

3. China’s Economic Transformation from Past 30 Years to Future 30 Years From Labor Intensive to Talent Rich ( 从人口红利到人才红利） From Made in China to Created in China （从中国制造到中 国创造） From Attract Capital to Attract Talents ( 从招商引资到招才引 智） From hardware to software ( 从重硬件到重软件） From Investment driven to talents driven( 从投资拉动到人才 拉动） From using domestic talents to international talents ( 从面向 国内人才资源到面向国际人才资源） From Wang Huiyao From Wang Huiyao

4. China’s National Talent Strategy: A Strong Country through Talent-Rich Chinese President Hu Jintao addresses a CCP and State Council conference on national talent held from May 25 to May 26 2010 in Beijing. Hu has called for the creation of a more competitive and innovative talents in the country, with the focus on training more top-notch specialists.

5. China’s First Medium and Long-term Talent Development Plan (2010-2020) The general goal of the plan till 2020 is cultivating a group of talents with reasonable structure and high quality, creating the comparative advantage of China in talent competitiveness, entering into the talent-rich countries and laying a talent foundation for the socialism modernization to be basically realized in the middle period of this century.

6. China’s First Medium and Long-term Talent Development Plan (2010-2020) The plan will increase the ratio of citizens with a higher education background in the work force from 9.2 % in 2008 to 20% by 2020. The plan stresses six categories of talents 1) political leaders, 2) entrepreneurial talents, 3) professional innovative-oriented talents, 4) highly skilled talents, 5 ） agricultural talents and 6)social work talents. Total talent pool from currently 104 million will increase to 180 million by 2020.

7. China’s First Medium and Long-term Talent Development Plan (2010-2020) These objectives will be achieved through: 1. Innovative Systems and Mechanism 2. New Talent and HR-related Policies 3. National Talent Programmes

8. “National Thousand Talent Program” to Attract High-level Overseas Talents Started at the end of 2008, Chinese government launched most liberal and ambitious Thousand Talent Program In 5 to 10 years time, China central government will attract 2000 top level overseas scholars, scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs and senior financial managers

9. “National Thousand Talent Program” to Attract High-level Overseas Talents Attracting oversea talent into China through competitive working and living packages and and through new policies such as green card for foreign residents, and issuing talent visas. through new policies such as green card for foreign residents, and issuing talent visas.

10. “National Thousand Talent Program” to Attract High-level Overseas Talents Up to now, over 2263 overseas talents have been recruited through this program. Among them, 1290 are of foreign nationality and 111 are non-Chinese original. They have been making significant contributions in various fields.

11. International Collaborations and Exchanges in Talent Development Learn from each other: Canada Research Chairs (CRCs) Education as a foundation for talent development Graduate education and research

12. “National Thousand Talent Program”: www.1000plan.org