Study: Digital talent moving to traditional industries

Digital talents in China are gradually migrating from pureplay technology fields to traditional industries that require digital makeovers, but the pace of the move should become faster to give a substantial boost to the real economy, a latest research study said.

People equipped with professional skills in the information and communication technologies have started to congregate in areas such as consumer goods, finance, education and corporate services, said a report by the Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management Center for Internet Development and Governance and LinkedIn China, a global professional service network.

Drawing on the 910,000 Chinese members on LinkedIn who can be qualified as "digital talents", the report found that newly arriving digital talent in both manufacturing and finance can be mostly traced to the software and IT service industries.