Binhai seeks talents

Tianjin Binhai New Area's ambitious recruitment policies are aiming to attract international professionals from specific industries and provide them with generous financial support.

Top-caliber medical management is one area of personnel being targeted by the area, which will provide successful applicants with a one-time relocation allowance of 2 million yuan ($317,188).

To qualify for the allowance, receivers must have more than three years of managerial experience in overseas hospitals and medical research institutions or public health agencies, or are postgraduate students in medical management and related disciplines at overseas medical universities and colleges approved by China's Ministry of Education.

Doctors engaged in medical research who have more than three years work experience in overseas medical institutions, and postgraduates and PhD students from overseas medical colleges approved by the Ministry of Education can also receive an allowance of 2 million yuan.

For more information on the Binhai New Area, call 86-022-6530-5761.

Universities wanted

Binhai New Area is also seeking to attract international universities and educational institutions - so they will launch professional training, scientific research, international exchanges and other educational activities in the district.

The oversea universities should be ranked among the world's top 100 and their subjects taught should be ranked within the top 20.

The institution should be equipped with more than 100 teachers and scientific researchers, classroom and lecture buildings, advanced teaching facilities and equipment.

The majors of the high-level institutions to be taught in the district should focus on the pillar industries and strategic emerging industries in the Binhai New Area, including petrochemicals engineering, aerospace, machinery manufacturing, automobile equipment manufacturing, new energy, new materials and the modern service sectors. According to Binhai New Area, the institutions should enroll more than 1,000 new students every year.

Qualified overseas institutions will receive financial support in the construction of campus infrastructure and scientific research. If the universities set up graduate schools in the new area and enroll more than 100 postgraduate students, they will receive funding of 80 million yuan to 100 million yuan.

Academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering, and lifetime professors of the overseas institutions will receive an allowance ranging from 8 million yuan to 12 million yuan.

For more information, contact the Binhai New Area education commission at 86-022-6689-7218.

Enterprises sought

In addition, Binhai New Area is eager to attract innovative entrepreneurial teams from abroad, consisting of experts, and Chinese returnees and workers with rich work experience overseas.

The startup teams should have their own independent intellectual property rights and core technology for their projects, as well as mature products and good business models.

More than 50 percent of the team's core members should work full-time in the industrial cluster and other members should work in the new area for more than three months.

The team should have registered its business in Binhai New Area within three years and the registered capital should be more than 20 million yuan.

Qualified startup teams will be provided with project funding of up to 100 million yuan.

For further information, contact the Binhai New Area science and industry commission at 86-022-6689-6152.

(China Daily 06/15/2018 page19)