Policies for Attracting Top Talents Are Key to the Future

Even as we are still absorbing the message from the recent meetings of the legislature and political advisory body for clues as to how authorities will handle the challenges of an economy growing slower than in the past, the public is debating a new topic: the need for China to attract and retain talent.

Several top leaders touched upon the issue in speeches they gave at the meetings of the National People's Congress and Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, saying we need to do more to reach out to trained professionals and established academics and that we should entrust them with key social and economic tasks.