人才强国战略 (réncái qiángguó zhànluè)

Strategy of Strengthening the Nation by Developing People's Talents

One of the country's most important strategies stressing the important position of nurturing talents and training workers in the country's development.

Formally listed as a significant and pressing mission for the country in 2003, this strategy is also one of the most fundamental policies in the 11th Five-year Plan between 2006 and 2010.

Specific measures of the strategy include improving the educational and training systems for all levels of personnel, forming a scientific scheme for accessing and utilizing talents, establishing a labor market that facilitates free flow of talents, setting up an income distribution system offering reasonable incentives to encourage innovation and launching institutional arrangements to lure high-level talents from home and abroad.

(China Daily 05/17/2008 page9)