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The Plan defines strategic objectives for China's talent development by 2020: to cultivate a high-quality talent pool, to confirm country's comparative strength of talent competitiveness, and to become one of the leading global talent powers.
- By 2020, more than 5 million talented individuals will be urgently needed in equipment manufacturing, information technology, biotechnology, new materials, aeronautics and astronautics, oceanography, finance and accounting, international business, environmental protection, energy resources, agriculture technology, and modern traffic and transportation.
- More than 7 million professionals will be needed in the fields of education, political science and law, medicine and health, publicity and cultural information, as well as disaster prevention.
- The plan aims for 20 percent of the labour force to attain higher education.
- Every 10,000 people in the work force should include 43 R&D professionals. China’s spending on R&D is currently 1.62 % of GDP. This is planned to rise to 2.5% by 2020.
- China will cultivate around 100 ‘strategic entrepreneurs’ to head the top 500 corporations in 2020, with the number of those who work for State-owned enterprises hitting 40,000.
- To introduce further measures to attract overseas Chinese talent to return to the country and to offer talent-favourable policies in households, medical care and the education of children.
National Talent Development Indicators
| Indicator |
Unit |
year 2008 |
year 2015 |
year 2020 |
| Overall Talent Amount |
10UK |
11385 |
15625 |
18025 |
| Amount of R&D workers per 10K human resource |
number year/ 10K |
24.8 |
33 |
43 |
| The proportion of the highly skilled talent to skilled workers |
% |
24.4 |
27 |
28 |
| The proportion of the educated HR |
% |
9.2 |
15 |
20 |
| The proportion of the HR capital investment to GDP |
% |
10.75 |
13 |
15 |
| Talent contribution rate |
% |
18.9 |
32 |
35 |
Implementation will be co-ordinated by Central Government's Talent Work Coordination Team. The Chinese Association of Science and Technology (CAST) makes links with Chinese researchers abroad, including potential recruits for the talent programme.
In the next 10 years, the TVET reform and development will focus on:
- Employer Engagement – develop a new form of collaboration between the employers and VET institution which is led by the government and industry association. The new system will engage employers more proactively into the VET education system.
- Serve the rural area needs - speed up the VET education in rural areas. Vocational education to become the key element for the development of rural areas.
- Strengthen the development of VET- The development of VET can boost the economic development, increase the employment, and improve the life quality. It is an effective way to solve the problems related to rural development. It can help close the gap between labour supply and demand.
- Attract more students into Vocational education system - by shifting the policy to the Vocational education, gradually putting free secondary VET into practice, and funding more students who have financial difficulty in vocational education, to attract more students into the VET system. Reform the current VET recruitment and teaching model in order to train highly skilled labour force.
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