112.341 million!
The "dividend" of my country's scientific and technological human resources does not decrease
Science and Technology Daily News (Reporter Yu Huiyou) On June 25, at the 24th China Association for Science and Technology Annual Conference "China Science and Technology Think Tank Forum", the "China Science and Technology Human Resources Development Research Report (2020)" ( hereinafter referred to as the "Report"), my country has maintained the world's largest scientific and technological human resources advantage. By the end of 2020, the scientific and technological human resources reached 112.341 million.
At the same time, in the past 10 years, the age structure of my country's scientific and technological human resources has continued to remain young, with people aged 39 and below accounting for about three-quarters.
In addition, the female tech workforce is growing rapidly and the gender ratio is balancing.
The "Report" systematically sorts out the development and changes of my country's scientific and technological human resources since 2005, judges the future development trend of my country's scientific and technological human resources, and puts forward policy recommendations to promote the sustainable development of my country's scientific and technological human resources.
The development and changes of my country's scientific and technological human resources show several major characteristics: the total amount of scientific and technological human resources has continued to grow, and has maintained the largest scale in the world for many years; the engineering background of scientific and technological human resources has an absolute advantage in all disciplines, with the highest proportion and significant growth; the structure of academic qualifications It presents a pyramid shape and is continuously optimized; the scientific and technological human resources are mainly young and middle-aged; the female scientific and technological human resources are growing rapidly, accounting for 40.1% of the total in 2019, and the proportion is constantly rising.
The "Report" gives the prediction of my country's scientific and technological human resources in the future: continue to maintain the trend of total growth, continue to optimize the structure, and further improve the quality.
At the same time, the "Report" proposes that my country should continuously improve the quality of training, improve the incentive mechanism, accelerate the transformation of scientific and technological human resources from large to strong, and cultivate a large-scale, high-quality, optimized structure, and prominent role for my country's scientific and technological talent team. Help accelerate the construction of an important global talent center and technological innovation highland.