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Dafeng eyes city for talent recruitment
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As one of China’s top metropolises, Shanghai has more than its fair share of resources, talent and attention. Of course, this comes despite myriad challenges, including high livings costs, traffic congestion, smog and constant pressure to perform.
Surveys suggest, though, that the appeal of China’s top-tier cities is still strong, as college graduates and other talents keep flocking to such places to pursue their careers. Shanghai’s considerable talent pool also makes it a convenient place for neighboring areas to scout top notch talent. For instance, the newly created district of Dafeng (formerly a county) in Yancheng, Jiangsu Province, has begun recruiting talent for its own development.
“Talent determines the future. In firmly pursuing a strategy of innovation, Dafeng has earmarked three percent of its annual fiscal budget for attracting and retaining talent, with particular focus on those with international vision,” said Ni Feng, the district Party Secretary, in addressing a recruitment conference held on October 9 at the Shanghai International Convention Center.
Talent plan
Ni also announced that between 2015 and 2017, Dafeng will annually recruit 6,300 college graduates, 1,000 experts, and 60 leading scientists and researchers.
Although situated close to the sea, Dafeng is in Subei (north Jiangsu), an area traditionally associated with harsh conditions, privations, and backwardness, at least compared with the more affluent cities in Jiangsu south of the Yangtze River. It has 112 kilometers of coastline and 1,000 square kilometers of marshland, much of which used to be salty and boggy. But the area is overcoming its disadvantages with cutting-edge strengths.
Unlike many places in China where the area of arable land is diminishing, Dafeng is seeing growth in its farmland. Thanks partly to reclamation and improvement efforts, over 50,000 mu (3,300 hectares) of new farmland is added annually to its tally of arable land.
It also enjoys a special relationship with Shanghai, as about 80,000 Shanghai zhishi qingnian (educated youths) lived and worked in Dafeng between the 1950s and the 1970s. Today a 300-square-km farm, an important provider of farm and dairy products to Shanghai, is still administered directly by Shanghai.
To the general public, Dafeng is perhaps better known as the adopted home of Pere David’s deer — known in Chinese as milu, or sibuxiang (the latter name meaning “the four unlikes.”) The city has been selected as a national ecological city. For those who value fresh air and peace and quiet, smaller cities have their own appeal.
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