Nanjing Tech Week 2020 · Purple Mountain International Summit of Talent Development was held on June 23. The Forum of China (Jiangsu) Pilot Free Trade Zone Nanjing Area on Integrated Development of Industry and Talent, a parallel forum of the summit and a major event of Nanjing Tech Week 2020, explored the industry-talent development trend from multiple perspectives with a focus on how to promote deep integration and development of industry and talent under the new circumstances in a free trade era with representatives from the government, experts of industries and representatives from enterprises.

What innovative development needs most is the leadership of talent. Jiangbei New Area (Free Trade Zone) provides all-round support for various kinds of talent to innovate and start a business. Top talent will be given the utmost support, with a maximum of RMB 10 million for entrepreneurship and without the upper limit on the total amount of incentives, and new types of R&D institutes will be given another RMB 5 million of incentives at maximum.

Industrial transformation depends on talent, and the supply of talent needs innovation. Experts and scholars had an in-depth discussion on how to promote the deep integration of industry and talent under the new circumstances in a free trade era in the round-table session of the forum. Chen Jihong, a professor with Shanghai Maritime University, believed, to establish a talent system with international competitiveness in the landscape of globalization and the new rules of international trade, we need to focus on three points: first, individual pilot free trade zones need to align their own industries with international industries; second, define the orientations and develop unique industries; third, establish internationalized or efficient systems and effective rules.

Regarding how to give full play to the advantages brought by the free trade zone and the national new area plus the opportunities for talent development, Han Jian, Executive Director of the Comprehensive Research Institute for Free Trade Zones of Nanjing University, expressed that attracting talent to China (Jiangsu) Pilot Free Trade Zone Nanjing Area should rely on the system, the business environment, and the industry instead of solely depending on preferential policies.

At the forum, China (Jiangsu) Pilot Free Trade Zone Nanjing Area signed contracts of five talent projects, including the Research Center for Accurate Diagnosis, Treatment and Transformation of Cholangiopancreatic Diseases at the Central Business District, the 5G RF Front-End Technology and Chip Industrialization at the Industrial Technology Research Park, and the Security Emergency Response Management Research Institute of Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology at the Intelligent Manufacturing Industrial Park. High-end talent introduction has provided a strong driving force for the high-quality development of China (Jiangsu) Pilot Free Trade Zone Nanjing Area.