Notice from Guangzhou Development District—Invitation to Leading Technological Talent from Home and Abroad
Notice from Guangzhou Development District
Invitation to Leading Technological Talent from Home and Abroad
To further implement its talent strategy, build a strong contingent of technological leaders and world-class innovative science and technology zone, the Guangzhou Hi-Tech Industrial Development Zone, Guangzhou Free Trade Zone, Guangzhou Export Processing Zone — referred to as Guangzhou Development District — is recruiting technological talents from home and abroad to establish ventures in the zone.
I. Candidates and conditions
The projects initiated by the candidates must be consistent with the direction of the industrial development in the zone and be closely related with his or her core technological field and must meet one of the following requirements:
1. Must possess an independent intellectual property right, have world-advanced technological achievements with high technological content that can fill a technological gap in the country and have good market potential and industrialization outlook.
2. Must have many years of experience working overseas, worked as a leader in an international discipline or a scientific and technological field and be capable of leading the industry at the forefront of international development.
3. Must be a leader in a technological field or discipline in a key state-level laboratory, discipline or engineering research center.
II. Application procedures
1. Application
The first batch of applications will be accepted from December 2008 to December 31, 2009. Applicants can download the application form at www.getdd.gov.cn and submit a business plan and the project application together with copies of relevant qualifications, work and technological achievements, intellectual property certification, valid identity document, industrial and commercial and taxation registrations and other supplementary materials.
2. Preliminary examination
Preliminary examination will be conducted at the Leading Talent Working Group Office of the Guangzhou Development District.
3. Interview
The preliminary examination result will be submitted to the expert group to be examined and used as a reference for the interview.
4. Examination
Expert group will submit the results of interview to the working group to be examined.
5. Public notification
The successful candidates will be announced publicly in provincial or higher media for 15 days.
6. Issuing certificate
If no public objection is made, the candidates will be awarded a certificate as the technological leader for Guangzhou Development District and sign a venture-supporting agreement.
III. Preferential policies
1. Financial assistance for new venture
A maximum of RMB6 million will be provided by the development zone as seed money for projects initiated by each of the technological leaders, who may also has access to: a maximum of RMB5 million venture-guiding capital from equity investors; a matching sum if his or her project has been invested by other ventures; two-year discount loans; up to RMB500,000 annual income tax subsidies.
2. Support by venture carriers
Venture projects settled in incubators or accelerators will be provided a maximum of 2,000 square meters of workspace with 3 years of rent exemption.
3. Housing
Technological leaders single or with family, will be provided with a rent-free apartment; an RMB1 million after-tax housing allowance will be provided for those whose operating revenue of the initiated project in the zone has surpassed RMB50 million in 3 years.
4. Living support
Each of the technological leaders and their families settled in the zone will be granted a one-time household allowance of RMB30,000 plus RMB2,000 in monthly transport subsidies, with their spouses and children given job recommendations by the labor and social security department of the zone; the children of the leaders can also enter any nursery, primary and middle schools in the zone.
5. Medical and health care
Medical and health service cards will be provided for technological leaders, who will enjoy public medical care, preferential services in designated hospitals, a free physical examination, health and medical care services every six months, including medical record establishment and health tracking services.
6. Academic-exchange platform
A technological leader club will be established to provide one or two overseas trips for observation and study or academic exchanges each year to those who have made outstanding contributions to the zone or whose work demands these visits. The financial assistance for each of these visits cannot exceed RMB20,000; pioneering-work tutors will give them whole-course guidance on their venture projects.
Contact the Leading Talent Working Group Office of Guangzhou Development District (located in the Personnel Bureau of the development zone) through telephone or email for further details.
Address: Room 712, East Tower of the Management Committee Building of Guangzhou Development District
Tel: 020-82111943 82111263
Contact: Miss Cai, Mr. Lee or Mr. Fu
E-mail: kjljrc@getdd.gov.cn Web site: www.getdd.gov.cn
The Management Committee of Guangzhou Development District
December 17, 2008
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