Young scientific and technological talents will "play a major role" and "take the lead"

Source: Shenzhen Special Administrative Region Newspaper August 29, 2023 Edition: A03

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■ Shenzhen Special Zone News reporter Zhang Cheng Wen Kun He Yong Zou Yuan Zhou Yumeng Wu Xu Mei


Recently, the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the General Office of the State Council issued Several Measures on Further Strengthening the Cultivation and Utilization of Young Scientific and Technological Talents (hereinafter referred to as Several Measures). Once the policy was launched, it triggered a warm response from Shenzhen science and technology enterprises, which expressed that young scientific and technological talents are the force of China's scientific and technological innovation, and play a vital role in the country's major scientific and technological tasks. Strengthening the cultivation and use of young scientific and technological talents will stimulate their innovative potential, promote the transformation of scientific and technological achievements and industrial upgrading, and help China's economic development with high quality.

     "Both relevant and actionable."

     "We deeply recognize the importance and urgency of young scientific and technological talents in promoting scientific and technological innovation and realizing the independent development of the country, and this release of Several Measures makes us highly encouraged and doubly excited!" Wang Xucheng, General Manager of Shenzhen Guoxin IOT Technology, believes that these measures provide clear guidance and policy support for promoting the growth and development of China's young scientific and technological talents, which is of great significance in stimulating the innovation vitality of young scientific and technological talents and promoting the construction of a strong scientific and technological country.

       In the Measures, the requirements for strengthening the independent evaluation capacity of scientific research units, reducing the non-scientific research burden of young scientific and technological talents, and increasing international scientific and technological exchanges and cooperation have been clarified. Wang Xucheng said that these initiatives not only help to improve the scientific research environment and provide a better development platform and conditions for young scientific and technological talents, but also help young scientific and technological talents to broaden their international horizons and absorb international advanced experience and knowledge.

        Lin Jianming, Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Samoan Cloud Technology Group, believes that outstanding young scientific and technological talents are the main force in technological innovation, and this time, the "Several Measures" has further increased the policy strength, actively responded to the expectations and demands of young scientific and technological talents, and put forward targeted and pragmatic initiatives, many of which have clearly defined quantitative requirements, with a strong operability.

     "For example, the proportion of young scientific and technological talents under the age of 40 as project (subject) leaders and backbones is, in principle, not less than 50%; the key special projects of the National Key R&D Program further expand the proportion of young scientists' projects, relax the age of the person in charge of the declaration and do not set restrictions on titles and academic qualifications, and require not to take the number of papers and the title of the talents as the evaluation index for the classification of the talents, and so on. All of them have greatly inspired and motivated the majority of young people to actively engage in scientific and technological innovation, and also provided guidelines for enterprises to strengthen the cultivation and use of scientific and technological talents." Lin said.

        Solving the worries of young scientific and technological talents

      "Several Measures" proposed to guide and support young scientific and technological talents to serve high-quality development, and encourage the active development of original innovation, technological research and transformation of achievements, which makes us, a type of chip design company dedicated to providing high-end core processor solutions, full of confidence." Rexchip (Shenzhen) COO Li Yi said that thanks to Shenzhen's policy advantages and business environment for science and technology enterprises, the company attaches great importance to the construction of young scientific and technological talent team, all-round training of young scientific and technological talent, from supporting young talent in major scientific and technological tasks "to pick the mainstay" "when the main character From supporting young talents to "take the lead" in major scientific and technological tasks, to encouraging young talents to initiate and lead scientific and technological innovation projects and participate in industry summits at home and abroad, the international activity and influence of the enterprise is driven by the power of young scientific and technological innovation.

       Gao Xiaoyun, Director of Human Resource Department of Shenzhen Shifeng Technology Co., Ltd. said, "Several Measures" requires to increase the efforts of young scientific and technological talents in life services and protection, which mentioned that localities should pay attention to and create conditions to help young scientific and technological talents to solve the difficulties in children's nursery and enrollment, housing, etc. These important measures have solved the worries of the majority of young scientific and technological talents.

     "The average age of our employees is 33 years old, 70% engaged in R&D, both in computational mechanics, applied mathematics, physics, engineering science and other fields of high-end talents, but also from domestic and foreign famous universities and long-term engaged in the development of the core algorithms of CAE PhD and postdoctoral. After the introduction of the policy, employees' children's childcare enrollment, housing and other issues are expected to be properly resolved, which will help young scientific research talents to lighten their load and work at ease." Gao Xiaoyun said.

       Companies will continue to create opportunities for talent

       The trend of transformation and development of China's manufacturing industry towards intelligence and greening is becoming clearer day by day. However, in the process of digital and intellectual transformation, enterprises are in urgent need of composite talents who understand both technology and industrial field. Shen Guohui, Founder and CEO of Mushroom IOT, said that the introduction of Several Measures is a "good medicine" for scientific cultivation of young scientific and technological complex talents.

     "Combining practical research needs and getting talents out of the lab and into the field is the key to cultivating composite talents. Composite talents who understand both technology and field knowledge are also a strong guarantee for the shift from Made in China to Made in China." Shen Guohui said.

     "Several Measures" can, on the one hand, stimulate the enthusiasm of young scientists and encourage enterprises to build highly self-driven learning organizations; on the other hand, it is also conducive to promoting the echelon development of scientific and technological talent team, our company has always emphasized the talent value proposition of mission-driven, health-first, light-speed growth, and encouragement of innovation, and these initiatives will further encourage the young and innovative These initiatives will further encourage young and innovative research talents to take up important responsibilities and grow rapidly." said Song Liang, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Shenzhen Northcore Life Sciences.

       At the same time, Several Measures put forward requirements for the service-oriented management of young scientific and technological talents, such as establishing and perfecting the evaluation mechanism for young scientific and technological talents and promoting the reduction of the burden of young scientific and technological talents, and so on. Song Liang said: "In the future, the company will continue to create a good growth environment and humanistic care for high-end young scientific and technological talents in core technology fields, create a cultural atmosphere that encourages innovation for scientific and technological innovative talents through the implementation of the OKR target management mechanism, and reduce the transactional and procedural work of the young scientific and technological talents through the continuous digitalization construction. "

      "Several Measures emphasize the importance of cultivating and guiding young scientific and technological talents at the national strategic level, especially mentioning the need to strengthen the integrated development of industry-university-research, supporting and encouraging higher education institutions, scientific research institutes and other institutions to select and send young scientific and technological talents with strong scientific research capabilities and innovative achievements to grassroots and enterprises to carry out scientific and technological consulting, product development, transformation of achievements, popularization of science and other services. This is very encouraging and inspiring for us as a technology company from industry, academia and research." said License, founder and CEO of Lance Sensing Technology (Shenzhen) Co.

       Permit said that the company as a typical entrepreneurship of scientists in Shenzhen and Hong Kong, the future will provide more young scientific and technological talents to provide a testing ground, more active participation in the country's major scientific and technological tasks, to provide more opportunities for young scientific and technological talents to develop, and further promote the training of talents, to solve the worries of talents.