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HR commission looking for more professionals
By CHEN QIDE (China Daily)
Updated: 2008-07-01 08:55

SHANGHAI: Caohejing High-Tech Park, one of the country's top parks of its kind, set up its first human resource professional commission yesterday in a bid to seduce more high-tech talents for its further development needs.

The commission, consisting of the park's 13 enterprises, aims to serve the park as well as the Yangtze Delta region by providing high quality professionals.
"It will create a new human resource system to push forward the supply of talent," said Xu Meihua, secretary general of the Shanghai Science and Technology Commission.

Shanghai has ranked 112th amongst the world's top 125 metropolitan circles, but it still lacks sophisticated talent needed to compete with its counterparts, Xu said.

"Without professionals, the city is unable to grow fast nor have a sustained development," she said.

Xu's words were echoed by Da Runiu, senior manager of the Caohejing High-Tech Park Development Corporation, who hoped the city would work out policies to improve the residence system so as to attract more talent.

The park now has 120,000 employees working for more than 1,200 high-tech firms and R&D institutions in five industries including information, new materials, aviation and space, biomedicine and modern service.

"The park will focus on training modern service talents in the next three years, which will be considered as a stimulus to push forward its high-tech industries," said Da.