Abundant & Highly Skilled Human Resources
Shenzhen boasts abundant human resources. By end of 2005, there were 791,000 technicians in the city, among which 305,200 had intermediate professional titles or above. Shenzhen people highlight the spirit of innovation, diligence and enterprising, which have contributed a lot for Shenzhen¡¯s great achievements in the economic growth.
The City of Attraction for Talents
Shenzhen is a domestic city with extraordinary attraction for the Chinese people, and more for the talents, with its fair and miraculous opportunities, especially the chances for development. With population grown from the original 300,000 twenty-five years ago to the present number of 10 million, recording an increase by 30 times.
In the hi-tech and service trade industries, especially, high level talents find their stages in Shenzhen. Young people with ambition and talents always find themselves filled with pride working in this city. Shenzhen welcomes over 30,000 graduates from various universities each year.
The innovative atmosphere of Shenzhen enables the prompt industrialization of knowledge. Talents from both China and overseas have crowded to Shenzhen for investment and initial business. Currently, there are over 5,000 overseas graduates in Shenzhen who have set up 300-plus hi-tech enterprises, covering hi-tech fields to include electronic information, biological medicine, optical-mechanical-electric integration, new energy, new materials, etc.
Capital of Creativity
Shenzhen is the most creative city with public recognition in China. Its output of hi-tech products accounts for nearly 60% of the total industrial output, and sees an increase by 40% annually. Its labor productivity ranks top in China. The GDP per capita of Shenzhen has exceeded USD 7,000. All the achievements have owed so much to the high quality labor force of Shenzhen.
People in Shenzhen enjoy studying novel things. As well educated most of them, they are keen on learning updated techniques, eager to keep up with the trends and maintain competitive edges.
Perfect Talent Mechanism
By end of 2005, there were 1,380 schools in Shenzhen, yielding 208,100 graduates, enrolling 290,200 new students, and with 1,047,400 in-school students. During 2005, colleges of Shenzhen enrolled 15,000 freshmen, and yielded 9,100 graduates, with 45,300 in-college students.
Shenzhen has set up 5 international schools and 3 schools for children of Hong Kong people working in Shenzhen. Shenzhen possesses 10 full-time higher education institutions, including graduate schools set up by Tsinghua University and Harbin Institute of Technology, etc. A virtual university park combining over 40 domestic and foreign universities has been established in the city. The Virtual University Park has adopted the internationalized development mode, and initially grown into a university technology park integrating styles, trends and cultures of universities stationed in. In respect of hardware investment, Shenzhen has been shouldering the standards of intermediately developed countries. Shenzhen has been honored as the first ¡°Strong City of Education¡± in Guangdong Province.
Shenzhen¡¯s university town has attracted first class educational institutions from China and overseas to set up their campuses and offices in the town.
Shenzhen Municipal Government encourages vocational education facilities of the private sector to provide training opportunities for the labor force. The reeducation ratio of social laborers of Shenzhen has exceeded 40%.
Shenzhen has constructed a comprehensive environment for training of talents. People from every part of the country work and study here in Shenzhen, and bring their experiences to other cities, making Shenzhen a significant distribution center of talents in China.