Recently, the finals of the first “Qianjiangyuan Talents” Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition in Kaihua County, Quzhou City and the 2021 “Unveiling the Leader” project conference were held. While a number of teams and projects have received heavy rewards and policy support, they have also attracted the attention of Kaihua, a small county town in western Zhejiang that only has “mountains and rivers” in many people’s impressions.
The “Qianjiangyuan Talent Plan” is considered to be the most powerful new talent policy in the history of civilization. This competition is also considered to be a heavy signal from the Kaihua County Party Committee and County Government to the outside world that they are “thirsty for talents”. Kaihua County Science and Technology Innovation Service Center has made every effort to do a good job in recruiting and attracting talents, and has assisted in the issuance of policies such as the “Implementation Opinions on Accelerating the Innovation-driven High-quality Development of Ecological Industry” and the “Opinions on Vigorously Implementing the “Qianjiangyuan Talent Plan”, and made full use of the policy to form a “new kinetic energy” of science and technology.
After 5 months of preparation, preliminary competition and other links, the attention of this competition is increasing day by day – not only 94 entrepreneurs from China, the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan and other places signed up for the competition, but also invited Xiong Shusheng, a visiting professor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, deputy director of the Institute of Power Machinery and Vehicle Engineering of Zhejiang University, and deputy director of the National Energy and Power Experimental Teaching Center, to observe and comment on the finals.
Many high-level talents and projects have achieved effective docking with local capital and leading enterprises through this competition. Taking this opportunity, Kaihua also officially issued an invitation to entrepreneurs at home and abroad for the second “Qianjiangyuan Talent” Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition.
Eclectic, at any cost to recruit talents, attract talents, and cultivate talents, this competition also has the following characteristics.
The recruitment policy is flexible. In this competition, not only for the teams and projects that have settled in Kaihua and selected into the “Qianjiangyuan Talents” innovation and entrepreneurship plan, they can be given a high project start-up subsidy of 6 million yuan, 4 million yuan and 2 million yuan respectively according to different categories, and for the projects that have made major technological breakthroughs and significant industrialization benefits within two years, the rewards can also be upgraded;
Focus on the key and core technology research needs of local enterprises. During the event, Professor Wu Mianbin from the School of Chemical Engineering and Biological Engineering of Zhejiang University and Professor Tang Hongding from the School of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences of Wuhan University signed relevant technical research agreements with Zhejiang Huakang Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. and Zhejiang Kaihua Synthetic Materials Co., Ltd. respectively.
As the source of the Qiantang River and a national-level ecological county with the only pilot national park system in the Yangtze River Delta region, Kaihua has gained a deeper understanding of the term “green development” while protecting the ecology in recent years. “Green development” is not only the development of green industries, but also the need to pay attention to talents and scientific and technological innovation, and give full play to their wisdom.
Looking at some of the policies recently introduced by Kaihua, we can see that Kaihua is good for talents.The importance of innovation is not a “whim”, but a long-term plan that is planned and then moved.
In August last year, the 10th Plenary Session of the 14th Kaihua County Party Committee put forward the “five threes” high-quality development system, of which the “one three” is to adhere to the development path of “party building red, source green, and science and technology blue”, so as to promote Kaihua to change lanes and overtake and leapfrog development. Since then, “Science and Technology Blue” has been raised to a new height in the small counties of western Zhejiang.
Talent, innovation and development are linked. Behind the science and technology innovation, the talent team is the most important. To this end, since last year, Kaihua has not only introduced 3 national-level leading talents, 2 provincial-level leading talents, and 6 high-level entrepreneurship and innovation teams, but also created the only “home of Zhejiang academicians” in Quzhou.
This “unveiling the leader” is not only a powerful move to stimulate the enthusiasm of the main body of enterprise innovation, but also to build a bridge of cooperation between enterprises and university research institutes. Kaihua County will take this “unveiling the leader” activity as an opportunity to vigorously attract the world’s top talents and innovation teams, accelerate the deep integration of the industrial chain, innovation chain and talent chain, and help enterprises tackle core technologies.
(Source: Kaihua County Science and Technology Bureau)