'Lack of talent stifles progress'

BEIJING - Despite having a large pool of potential talent, a lack of high-level innovative people is hindering China's attempts to build an innovation-oriented country, its top labor official said on Friday.

Yin Weimin, the minister of human resources and social security, said China's human resources structure does not match its need for talent to support its economic and social development.

Yin was speaking during a talent development forum in Beijing.