China News Service, February 7. According to the website of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Finance, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, and the All-China Federation of Trade Unions recently issued the "Cultivation of Highly Skilled Leading Talents" plan".
According to the requirements of the "Opinions on Strengthening the Construction of High-Skilled Talent Team in the New Era" of the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Finance, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, and the National General Administration of The trade unions jointly developed a plan to cultivate high-skilled leading talents. The specific contents are as follows:
Highly Skilled Leading Talent Cultivation Program
In order to implement the strategic deployment of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China on accelerating the construction of national strategic talent forces, striving to cultivate more craftsmen and highly skilled talents in the country, further expanding the number and scale of highly skilled talents, and improving the quality level, from 2024 to 2026, Jointly organize the implementation of high-skilled leadership talent training programs.
1. Guiding ideology
Guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, we will thoroughly implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, adhere to the Party’s overall leadership in the construction of a team of highly skilled talents, and cultivate a group of high-tech talents who love the Party and serve the country, are dedicated to their work, have high quality, and have superb skills. Skilled leading talents (hereinafter referred to as "leading talents"), support their continuous growth and role, and provide strong support for high-skilled talents in comprehensively building a modern socialist country and promoting high-quality development.
2. Target tasks
(1) Scope of leading talents. Leading talents refer to backbone skilled talents who have a firm political stance, practice the spirit of craftsmanship, solve production problems, promote innovation and creation, and cultivate young talents, including those who have won honors such as National Model Worker, China Skills Award, National Technical Expert, and National May Day Labor Medal. , or enjoy special government subsidies at or above the provincial level, receive commendations and awards at or above the provincial level, or be recognized as "high-precision and in short supply" high-skilled talents by the governments of various provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government).
(2) Work objectives. Guided by the implementation of the strategy of strengthening the country through talents in the new era, we will closely focus on the needs of major national strategies, major projects, major projects, and key industries, mobilize and rely on all aspects of society, and focus on cultivating leading talents in advanced manufacturing, modern service industries and other related industries. We strive to cultivate more than 15,000 new leading talents across the country in about three years and drive about 5 million new high-skilled talents. Improve the joint promotion mechanism of training, use, evaluation and incentives, accelerate the cultivation of technical skills, compound skills, knowledge skills and digital skills leading talents required for high-quality development, make full use of leading talents, and give full play to leading talents to lead demonstrations function to promote the overall development of highly skilled talents.
3. Key tasks
(3) Formulate special training plans. It is necessary to strengthen the prediction of the supply and demand of leading talents, and formulate special training plans for local and industry leading talents based on the trends of economic and social transformation, technological innovation and development, and industrial structure change. We will focus on cultivating young talents with outstanding skills and outstanding performance as well as outstanding players in various vocational skills competitions as leading talents to support their growth and success. Establish an information database for cultivating leading talents, understand the basic situation of leading talents and key training targets, and carry out targeted training and team building work.
(4) Increase efforts in training and cultivation. Strengthen the main responsibility of enterprises and rely on platforms such as corporate training centers, vocational schools (including technical schools, the same below), high-skilled talent training bases, public training bases, craftsmen colleges, skill master studios, model workers and craftsman talent innovation studios, etc. Through enterprise on-the-job training, school-enterprise joint training, key position practice, key project participation, etc., we will cultivate leading talents who adapt to the needs of industrial development and national strategies. Support enterprises to join forces with educational and scientific research institutions to help leading talents and key training targets improve their technology research and development levels through cooperative training and project collaboration. Organize activities such as skill training, peer exchanges, mentorship by famous teachers, and overseas training to improve the overall quality, skill level and practical innovation ability of leading talents. Promote the implementation of the apprenticeship system with Chinese characteristics, cultivate young skilled talents with high skills, and include them in the training of leading talents.
(5) Smooth promotion and growth channels. Support enterprises to improve the level setting of "new eight-level workers" skill positions, add special technician and chief technician technical positions (positions) to occupations (types of work) with senior technicians, and promote the evaluation and recruitment of special technicians and chief technicians. For skill position levels, complete occupations (types of work) are set up, and enterprises can directly identify technicians, senior technicians, special technicians and chief technicians. For front-line employees with superb skills and outstanding performance, restrictions on education, seniority, age, proportion, etc. can be further broken, and vocational skill levels of senior workers and above can be directly recognized. Highly skilled talents who have solved major process and technical problems and major quality problems, and whose technological innovation achievements have won awards at the provincial or ministerial level or above, can be promoted to vocational skill levels in an exceptional manner. Support highly skilled talents with high theoretical level and strong innovative ability to participate in the review of corresponding professional and technical titles.
(6) Improve the level of benefits. Guide enterprises to establish and improve the salary distribution system for skilled talents based on job value, ability, quality and performance contribution, so that those who work more will get more, and those with higher skills will get more. For leading talents who have made outstanding contributions to technological innovation or technological breakthroughs, companies can reward them in various forms such as bonuses and equity from the proceeds from the transformation of their results. Encourage enterprises to implement annual salary system, agreement salary system, and project salary system for leading talents in key technical positions. State-owned enterprises can give appropriate preference to leading talents within the total salary and implement special posts and special pay based on actual conditions.
(7) Improve the mechanism for stabilizing and retaining talents. Encourage enterprises to innovate, improve relevant systems, and attract stable leading talents. Support enterprises and leading talents to agree on service periods and enter into non-compete agreements in accordance with the law. For leading talents who are in urgent need of work and who will have a greater impact on their work after retirement, their retirement can be postponed if they comply with unified national regulations and filed with the local human resources and social security department. For leading talents who are urgently needed in actual work and have gone through retirement procedures, companies can negotiate and sign re-employment agreements with them.
(8) Support plays a role. Create conditions for leading talents to participate in key projects and major projects, lead front-line production problems, summarize and promote unique skills, etc. Protect the intellectual property rights of leading talents and the rights and interests of transforming technological innovation achievements. Support leading talents to participate in large-scale industrial exhibitions at home and abroad, South-South cooperation skills development networks under the “Belt and Road” framework, foreign aid and other cooperation projects. Organize leading talents to serve as corporate mentors for apprentices, encourage leading talents to work part-time in vocational schools, and improve the practical abilities, skill levels and professional qualities of apprentices and students.
(9) Strengthen the construction of leading talent platform. Priority will be given to supporting leading talents who participate in major national strategies, major projects, major projects, and key industries to lead the creation of skill master studios, model workers, and craftsman talent innovation studios, focusing on technological innovation in advanced manufacturing, strategic emerging industries, digital skills, and other fields. , skills research and talent training work, and financial support will be provided according to regulations to those who meet the conditions. Encourage all localities to build talent ports, craftsman cities and other skills platforms, organize leading talents to carry out skills and cultural dissemination activities, set up skills display, skill interaction, and career experience areas to strengthen skills knowledge dissemination and cultural cultivation for the public and young students.
(10) Select and commend outstanding leading talents. Organize and carry out various vocational skills competitions and on-the-job training activities, award relevant honors to emerging outstanding players in accordance with regulations, implement vocational skill level promotion policies, and include them in the scope of key training targets. Increase the support for highly skilled talents through commendations at the provincial and ministerial levels and special government subsidies at and above the provincial level, and actively recommend outstanding highly skilled talents to apply for participation in the National Model Worker and Advanced Worker, China Skills Awards, National Technical Experts, and National May Day Labor Medal, National Science and Technology Progress Award, National Employees’ Outstanding Technological Innovation Achievements, etc. Qualified outstanding leading talents will be selected and recommended to trade unions and other mass organizations for temporary or part-time positions in accordance with relevant regulations.
4. Work requirements
(11) Strengthen organizational leadership. Establish a leading talent cultivation working mechanism in which the human resources and social security department coordinates, relevant departments perform their respective duties, and industry enterprises actively participate. It is necessary to actively report work to the party committee and the government and strengthen departmental communication and coordination. Human resources and social security, development and reform, education, science and technology, state-owned assets, and labor union departments must share information, strengthen organizational promotion, and jointly promote the cultivation of leading talents.
(12) Provide security services. Strengthen the construction of service windows for skilled talents and homes of skilled masters, and provide support services for leading talents. Human resources and social security departments and financial departments at all levels should take into account local realities, make good use of employment subsidy funds, local talent team building funds, etc., support the training of leading talents, and implement policies such as vocational training subsidies and high-skilled talent training subsidies in accordance with regulations. . Guide enterprises to fully withdraw and rationally use employee education funds in accordance with regulations, with more than 60% used for front-line employee education and training, and link this situation with the enterprise's application for land, energy use and implementation of priority evaluation.
(13) Create a good atmosphere. Give full play to the positive guiding role of public opinion, publicize major policies, important activities, innovative experiences and work results for skilled talents through multiple channels and methods, further create a good atmosphere of respecting labor, respecting knowledge, respecting talents and respecting creation, and motivating the majority of workers, especially Young people take the road of becoming talents through skills and serving the country with skills. Emphasis on demonstration and model leadership, in-depth exploration of the work deeds and growth experiences of leading talents, telling skill stories, creating skill stars, and vigorously promoting the spirit of model workers, labor spirit, and craftsmanship.