Functions of Hefei International Talent City
Since 2017, with the Hefei Party Committee and local government’s requirements of “speeding up the building of Hefei International Talent City, and creating an innovative platform for talent factor gathering and talent working mechanism”, Hefei National High-tech Industry Development Zone (Hefei high-tech zone) has focused on leading the talents and scientific and technological works and launched the construction of “Hefei International Talent City”, in order to create a “one-stop” service base for high-level talents, especially overseas talents to innovate and conduct entrepreneurship.
The "Talent City" is located in 1st-3rd floors, Block B, Building G3, the second phase of the Innovation Industrial Park, Hefei high-tech zone. It covers a total floor area of approximately 4,000 sq m. It is expected to be a comprehensive service organization connecting the government, enterprises, social organizations with talents, and strives to create “one window, three platforms” (talent’ achievements display window, high-end service platform, resource gathering platform and entrepreneurship incubation platform). What’s more, it plans to build "Hefei International Talent", which will be launched simultaneously to provide mobile terminals with online services for talents.
Design sketch of the Hefei International Talent City [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]
The details of the Talent City’s functions are as follows:
(1) Talents’ achievements window: the Talent City has built a first-class exhibition hall, featuring five parts: preface hall, talent work tour exhibition, talent achievements hall of fame, and future vision (concluding remarks). The exhibition highlights the combination of sounds and lights and multimedia, to show the application of high-tech in Hehei and Anhui province.
(2) High-end service platform: the Talent City provides services on high-level personnel identification (identification card for the talents), foreign expert, and talents’ project declaration and policy implementation, medical security, housing admission, immigration and residence, innovation and entrepreneurship consulting. And the online talent service platform will be launched to provide a “one-stop” service for high-level personnel.
(3) Resource agglomeration platform: the Talent City provides meeting rooms, negotiation rooms and other places for talents, regularly releases personnel policy as well as supply and demand information, and organizes trainings, salons and other activities to build it into a “home for talents”. The Talent City plans to introduce agencies and organizations on science and technology, finance and human resources service at home and abroad and increase road shows, project promotion, and group introduction to promote the docking of talents, projects and resources, helping high-level talents jnnovate and start businesses.
(4) Innovation incubation platform: the Talent City cooperates with Overseas Chinese Center in Hefei, to meet the demands of overseas high-level talents for innovation and entrepreneurship, strengthen policy support, help them launch their projects smoothly, and solve various difficulties in their early stage of entrepreneurship.
The Hefei International Talent City hosts a training program of the Human Resource Association of the Hefei National High-tech Industry Development Zone. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]
The Entrepreneurship Incubation Area of the Hefei International Talent City. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]