Analysts gauge talent competitiveness of Chinese provinces

Chinese talent development experts on Sunday launched the country's first comprehensive report that gauged competitiveness of different provincial-level regions in attracting and using talented people.

The book featured a more systematic evaluation method that incorporated parameters of talents' number, quality, living environment and their innovation ability and contribution to local development in different regions on the Chinese mainland, according to experts at a book launch here.

It came as China's central and local authorities have over the recent years been more active in global "talent war" by introducing more policy initiatives to woo high-caliber professionals and graduates from overseas.

The top 10 provincial level-regions in terms of talent competitiveness in 2011 were Beijing, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Shandong, Tianjin, Liaoning, Fujian and Chongqing, the report said.

In another talent competitiveness rank the report gave on China's 32 major cities for 2010, it listed Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Wuhan, Changsha, Ningbo, Chengdu, Jinan and Xi'an as the top 10.

It also noted that in 2010, combined together, Guangdong, Beijing and Jiangsu received around 70 percent of all the returnees who had studied in overseas universities.

Moreover, the report called for continued efforts to improve China's employment, entrepreneurial, living, cultural and policy environment in a bid to facilitate talent development.

Co-authored by Gui Zhaoming, director of the Hubei-based Talent Development Research Center and Wang Huiyao, head of the newly-formed Beijing-based China Global Talents Society, the book has been published by the Social Sciences Academic Press, which is reputed for publishing study reports from think-tanks.