Shenzhen is striving to introduce 50 research teams, 1,000 senior professionals and 10,000 students studying overseas to come to work here in the next five years.
The returned professionals will receive housing and project subsidies while their spouses and children will be given priority in employment, education and medical care.
The measures are part of the Peacock Plan, which was released by Shenzhen Party chief Wang Rong during his trip to recruit professionals in Los Angeles on Sunday (local time).
Wang, who headed a 200-member delegation, also unveiled a Shenzhen recruitment office for professionals in North America.
The Los Angeles office will be a permanent liaison office for Shenzhen to recruit professionals, promote talent introduction policies and organize job fairs.
A job fair that day attracted nearly 2,000 overseas students. Among them 400 had signed letters of intent with enterprises and institutions. Shenzhen Lihao Group signed two professionals offering salaries of 1.3 million yuan (US$191,000) and 900,000 yuan a year. The Shenzhen Postgraduate Institute of Harbin Institute of Technology signed a dozen students who want to conduct research in Shenzhen.
The 30 years of development had laid a solid foundation for Shenzhen s development. More overseas students, researchers and scholars will be attracted to work in Shenzhen and contribute to economic growth and social development, Wang said.
It was the seventh time Shenzhen had recruited professionals overseas. The delegation left Shenzhen on Sept. 9 for Silicon Valley in San Francisco with nearly 1,000 vacancies in electronics, Internet, finance, bio-medicine and telecommunications. A total of 153 vacancies have annual salaries of more than 1 million yuan. The delegation will head for Tokyo after leaving the United States. (Han Ximin)
