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City woos talents
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●Discrimination ended ●Quota lifted
THE city has announced new policies aimed at attracting more talents from other parts of the country and the world.
The Municipal Personnel Bureau released a reform package on Wednesday consisting of six new measures, in an effort to build the city into a “special zone for talents".
The boldest move is the end to the discriminative practice of “licensing" which has banned most non-State-owned companies from applying to the bureau for approval for their migrant recruits that would de facto grant them permanent residency.
At present, just over 1,000 institutions and companies are eligible to apply to introduce talents from outside the city. The new move will put all enterprises and institutions on an equal footing so long as they have the status of a legal entity, regardless of their ownership, size and history.
Describing the quota system as “unscientific", the bureau will publish a list of wanted and unwanted specializations instead of allocating quota among eligible recruiters.
The new policy also removes other barriers, including exams that many candidates are required to pass, regional restrictions that have barred employers in the city from recruiting personnel from some remote areas, giving priority to men in couple candidates and training required by the bureau.
According to Chen Anren, director of the bureau, besides these six new measures which will come into effect at the end of the month, the bureau will offer further deregulation and incentives after consulting with other departments involved.
Other new measures in the pipeline include the lifting of utility charges that some categories of the city's newcomers have had to pay and income tax rebates that will be earmarked as housing proceeds.
According to Guangzhou Daily, many graduates recruited by the city's high-tech giants Huawei and Zhongxing Telecom prefer to register their permanent residency in Shanghai after that city, seen by many people as Shenzhen's arch rival in attracting talents, offered income tax rebate to recruits.
The Daily said Shenzhen will return personal income tax to new residents with graduate education and above who have become permanent residents of the city for at least three years, though that rebate can only be put toward purchasing a home.(SD News)
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