Beijing linking up with talent on LinkedIn

The Beijing municipal government is trying to attract more top talent by working with the US-based professional networking company LinkedIn Corp.

The Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area, which was established in 1991, has about 9,000 enterprises with a total investment surpassing $40 billion. The majority of them are in high-tech industries such as electronic information, biomedicine and manufacturing.

"The core of a company's development is talent," said Zhang Fengmin, trade union chief of the BDA. "The top concern for us in past years has been how to meet the demand of companies in the BDA to recruit more high-end talent from home and abroad."