Li Hao
Shenzhen will set up four liaison offices for overseas high-caliber professionals, a press conference was told yesterday.
The four liaison offices will be set up in North America, Japan, Europe and Australia, providing information consultations and service for overseas professionals, with the first to open in Silicon Valley, the United States, in mid-September.
Following the establishment of the four offices, the city government plans to open more liaison offices to promote Shenzhen for overseas professionals.
A total of 2,600 vacancies will be available for overseas recruitment for professionals in the United States and Japan. Recruiting would start tomorrow, said Li Ming, vice head of the city's human resources and social security bureau.
Li said that the vacancies were in 337 local enterprises.
They were in electronic information, the Internet, finance and securities, new energy development, photo electricity, and bio-medicine, offered by local big players including ZTE, Ping An, Huawei and BYD.
Of the available posts 153 will offer an annual salary of more than 1 million yuan (US$147,000) and 396 an annual salary of more than 500,000 yuan, according to the conference.
Qualifications for 80 percent of the posts include degrees higher than a master's degree.
The government's recruitment team, to be led by city Party chief, Wang Rong, will hold job fairs in Silicon Valley in the United States and Tokyo in Japan.
In addition, a promotional meeting was scheduled to be held in Los Angeles to introduce Shenzhen s policies for professionals.
The recruitment team will also hold a symposium with Chinese students at Stanford University in the United States.
"Shenzhen's high-tech and high-end service industries have an increasing dependence on high-caliber overseas professionals," said Wang Min, head of the human resources and social security bureau.
