Highlights on talent in China's 2025 Government Work Report

english.shanghai.gov.cn| March 14, 2025

	Giving full play to the leading role of talent hubs and platforms, we will work faster to foster talent with expertise of strategic importance for our country and redouble efforts to nurture top-tier innovators, urgently needed personnel in key areas, and highly-skilled workers.
	Young scientists and engineers should be given strong support and important responsibilities.
	We will develop a first-rate industrial technical workforce.
	We will also improve the support mechanisms for talent recruited from overseas and provide better services for foreign professionals.
	We will deepen institutional reforms to grant employers greater decision-making power over personnel management and appointments and encourage joint training and personnel exchanges between industries, universities, and research institutes.
	More professional personnel will be fostered in rural areas.
	We will carry out large-scale plans for upgrading vocational skills to increase the supply of highly-skilled personnel urgently needed in the manufacturing and service sectors.
	We will move faster to develop a skills-based pay system to see that skilled workers get better paid. In short, we will ensure better pay for those with a commitment to hard work, an outstanding skill set, and a dedication to innovation.
	Greater efforts will be made to train medical personnel in nursing, pediatrics, pathology, general practice, and geriatrics. Mental health services will be improved.

Sources: Xinhua and the official WeChat account of the State Council of China at "zhengfu"