1. The provisions are constituted to encourage overseas graduates to work in Fuzhou, and play an active role in the strategy of developing the city with science & education and sustaining development, so as to promote Fuzhou¡¯s economic construction and social development.

2. The provisions apply to sponsored or self-depended overseas graduates, who gained at least bachelor degree abroad; visiting scholars or trainees, who at least have college education background or junior professional titles and studied overseas in college, university or institution for scientific research for a year or longer and got certain achievements; visiting scholars with senior professional title, studied overseas in college, university or institution for at least half a year; or other overseas graduates who got notable achievements in certain fields, and whom our city are in dire need of.

3. Fuzhou Personnel Bureau is the department responsible for the work of overseas graduates management, such as identification, reception, inquiry, allocation and so on.

4. Returned overseas graduates can choose to settle down in Fuzhou or only a short-term engagement. Based on the principle of ¡°bilateral selection¡±, they can select jobs fitting with their own specially, in government organization, state-owned enterprise, collectively-owned enterprise, town-owned enterprise, private enterprise, joint-stock enterprise or foreign-investing enterprise. They can work in the foreign enterprise¡¯s Fuzhou office, or Fuzhou enterprise¡¯s foreign office. They can come to Fuzhou to transfer technology, hold shares by technology, contract projects, establish private or joint stock enterprises by themselves or with cooperation. They can take a short-term return to give lectures, do co-researches, tackle key technique problems. They can also invest in Fuzhou with their own capital or that of foreign registered company. Overseas graduates coming to Fuzhou for work can look for the unity by themselves or entrust their domestic relatives. They can also contact with Fuzhou Personnel Bureau. The organization can directly connect with overseas talents too.

5. Overseas graduates settling down in Fuzhou, the responsible department of the employer should report to Fuzhou Personnel Bureau and go through the procedure. The allocated ones by National Personnel Bureau or Education Department, Fuzhou Personnel Bureau should take responsible of relationship transference and job arrangement. There are no restrictions in the number of staff, member quota of increasing, salary fund, or total wages if overseas graduates choose the enterprises or institutions. The employers can apply separately for that to Fuzhou Staff Commission, Personnel Bureau, and Labor Department, One case one resolution. The spouses and children of these overseas talents should be given priority in job allocation by related departments.

6. To work in Fuzhou, overseas graduates should hand in to Personnel Bureau the copies of their passes, foreign schooling certification, degree certification, grade transcript, relevant these, and other valid certifications endorsed by nation¡¯s foreign embassy. The visiting scholars, trainees or other overseas talents should also provide certifications of inland college education background or junior professional title.

7. To work in Fuzhou, if overseas graduates want to settle down, their ¡°Domicile and Grain Relationship¡± can be transferred into the city, free from the quota limitation of mechanical increase of the municipal population. With the certification of municipal Personnel Bureau, their spouses minor children (excluding schooling students, same as follows), and parents they must support, can apply for the domicile and go through the procedure in local Public Security Bureau. The spouses, minor children, and parents they must support have the priority to go through the procedure of ¡°from farm residence changing into non-farm residence¡±, if they were farm residence originally.

8. After the approval of municipal Personnel, overseas graduates can be recruited as government cadres. They and their spouses, companying them study abroad, can resume status as cadre or employee after recruitment and endorsement by the municipal Personnel Bureau, no matter they departed by themselves from the original organization, or remain post but cease salary, or fired by the organization. The working periods are accounted based on the relevant regulations. According to the regulation of National Education Committee, the study period in foreign higher college beyond the limitation can be accounted successively as working period, so as the study time of sponsored overseas graduates and self-support ones in his ¡°remain post, cease salary¡± period. Overseas graduates wants to change their work, their former employers must let them go and have no right to detain their files or demand more fees than the sum limited by the nation.

9. Working in Fuzhou, overseas graduates can apply for the post-quality verification and work as a technician based in the legal procedure. If it is the first time for them to come to Fuzhou, their application will be free from the limitation of posts and positions. The institution apply to the Personnel Department for the quota of professional titles, while the enterprises can hire freely.

10. To settle down in Fuzhou, overseas graduates¡¯ housing problem should be preferentially resolved through negotiation with employers. The employers should rent the apartment for those who only come to Fuzhou for a short-term work.

11. Employers must pay international travel fees to these overseas graduates coming and settling down in Fuzhou. The accommodation fees of their accompany relatives should be paid according to the following standards: 15,000 Yuan for those own senior professional titles or Doctor degrees; 10,000 Yuan for those own junior professional titles or Master degrees; 5,000 for others. Further more, the subsidiary of 200 Yuan is paid to those own Doctor degrees, and 100 Yuan for Master degrees.

12. Overseas graduates come to Fuzhou to undergo science research or develop new products and new technology, their employers should provide them with funds and other convenient conditions preferentially. They can also apply for assistant fund or start-fund for science research to the related departments of the city, the province or the nation. Working in Fuzhou, they have priority to apply for the abroad study, training, attending foreign academic meeting, or other short-term academic activities.

13. Spiritual and material incentives should be given to them based on their contributions in the work.
£¨1£©Overseas graduates promote the sale of Fuzhou goods, the beneficiary should pay 1%-8% after-tax profit as bonus or by contracts.
£¨2£©Overseas graduates develop new products, the beneficiary should pay as bonus 3%-6% after-tax profit of the highest first 3 profit-making years.
£¨3£©Overseas graduates come to Fuzhou with projects, the beneficiary should pay as bonus 10%-12% after-tax profit of the highest first 3 profit-making years after the implementation of the project.
£¨4£©The beneficiary should pay as bonus based on the benefit degree if it can not be value directly.

14. Overseas graduates apply for establishing new enterprises to related departments, which should provide them with preferential treatment and convenience in enterprise registration, industry and business taxation, import and export business, laboring personnel and so on.

15. Overseas graduates implementing new high-tech projects in Fuzhou will be supported financially by hi-tech loan discount or other related assistant funds.

16. Overseas graduates establishing in Fuzhou new hi-tech enterprises, the income tax of which will be levied based on the policy of ¡°2-year exemption, 8-year slash¡±. That is to say, the enterprises will enjoy extension in the first 2 profit making years, from 3rd to 5th year, slashed by 50%, from 6th to 10th year, 25% of the taxation detained by the local government will be refunded financially.

17. If the annual pure profit of technology transfer, technology inquiry, technology service, and technology training is under 300,000 Yuan, the enterprises of overseas graduates will be exempted from business income tax.

18. Loosen the exit limitation of business and technical individuals of the enterprises established by overseas graduates. Simplify the formalities and shorten the approval period.

19. Fuzhou Personnel Bureau takes responsible of the provision¡¯s explanation.

20. The provisions will be implemented on the day of publishing.

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