Yangpu Economic Development Zone’s Ten Measures to Encourage Talent Introduction

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Yangpu Economic Development Zone’s Ten Measures to Encourage Talent Introduction

The following talent introduction measures are formulated on the basis of reality, in order to further innovate the talent system and mechanism of the development zone, comprehensively improve the level of talent service, promote the development of talents, build a talent highland, and provide talent guarantee and intellectual support for the construction of free trade port:

I. Fully ease restrictions on residence registration for talents

Talents from outside the province who have signed formal labour contracts with key employers in the development zone can register for permanent residence, and their spouses, minor children and parents who have reached national legal retirement age living with them can move with them.

II. Protect talents to settle down in all-round way

(I) If the talents introduced by key employers and their family members have no houses in the development zone, they can purchase one set of commodity housing in the zone.

(II) Master-level talents, outstanding talents and leading talents can enjoy a rent-free talent apartment of not less than 120 square meters and will be granted all property rights for free after working in the development zone for five years. The key high-level talents introduced by the development zone are determined in line with the system of “one case one discussion”.

(III) The introduced full-time talents who rent houses in the zone can enjoy rental subsidies, which are paid by the development zone finances. Housing rental subsidies shall be granted for a cumulative period of less than 36 months and will be received and granted on a quarterly basis.

The subsidy guiding criteria are: top-notch talents RMB 3,000/month, other high-level talents RMB 2,000/month, full-time master graduates (intermediate title, senior technician) RMB 1,500/month, full-time undergraduate graduates (junior title, technician) RMB 1,000/month, full- time college graduates (senior worker) RMB 800/month.

(IV) The introduced full-time talents who purchase houses in the province can apply for house purchase subsidies, which are paid by the development zone finances. The purchase subsidizes shall not exceed three years in total and will be handled and granted once a year. The subsidy guiding criteria are: top-notch talents RMB 36,000/year, other high-level talents RMB 24,000 / year, full-time master graduates (intermediate title, senior technician) RMB 18,000/year, full- time undergraduate graduates (junior title, technician)RMB 12,000/month, full-time college graduates (senior worker) RMB 9,600/year.

Talents or their spouses who have enjoyed the purchase of public housing, government-built affordable housing, restricted-sale commercial housing, unit-founded housing, employee housing, and preferentially allocated public rental housing or receive public rental housing subsidizes shall not apply for housing rental subsidizes and housing purchase subsidizes again.

Housing rental subsidizes will no longer be granted to those who have received subsidizes for purchasing houses. The received housing rental subsidizes should be deducted before housing purchase subsidizes are received.

Employers can decide on their own whether or not to match the ratio of 1:1 in accordance with their own salary management regulations.

III. Optimize the access of talents’ children to school

High-quality degrees will favour the children of talents introduced by key employers and reasonable arrangements will be made in line with the principle of “one case one discussion”. In terms of the high-quality degrees that could not be provided temporarily in the development zone, solutions should be made through negotiations with high-quality private schools outside the zone.

If the provincial party committee and the provincial government have regulations on the access of the children of introduced talents to school and kindergarten, as well as the conditions for them to apply for the senior high school and college entrance examinations, the regulations should be followed.

IV. Provide high-quality health care

(I) Open green channels for medical treatment for the introduced talents and provide self- selected expert registration in cooperated grade A class three hospitals outside the zone.

(II) Provide hospitalization nursing subsidies of not more than twelve months at most for high- level talents (master-level talents, outstanding talents, leading talents and top-notch talents) in accordance with the standard of one month for each full year of work.

The nursing subsidizes will be based on actual days of hospitalization and provided according to the average monthly salary standard of the province’s employed workers in the previous year.

V. Provide transitional protection for the employment of spouses of high-level talents

Encourage spouses of high-level talents to find their own jobs independently in a market- oriented manner. For the first, second and third-type talents among master-level talents, outstanding talents, leading talents, top-notch talents and other high-level talents, during their period of working in the development zone.

If their spouses are not employed, living expenses will be granted to them based on society’s average monthly salary of the province’s employed workers in the previous year, and both basic endowment insurance for urban and rural residents and basic medical insurance for urban and rural residents will be paid for them; in the coordinated area of Yangpu, their spouses who attend basic endowment insurance for urban employees in a flexible employment status and pay the premium can apply for financial subsidies, whose standard is 70% of their actual payment.

The maximum transitional protection period is three years.

VI. Improve the individual income tax subsidy policy on wages and salaries of talents

(I) Foreign talents and residents of Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao working in the development zone shall be subsidized by the development zone if the amount of individual income tax on wages and salaries paid in the development zone exceeds the taxable amount calculated based on 10% of their taxable income;

(II) The following talents will be given a certain proportion of subsidizes in accordance with the local retention of individual income tax on wages and salaries paid during their period of working in the development zone:

1. Master-level talents, outstanding talents, leading talents and masters of South China Sea will subsidized based in line with the proportion of 100%;

2. Top-notch talents, doctoral students, entrepreneurial talents of South China Sea and chief technicians of South China Sea will be subsidized in line with the proportion of 80%;

3. Talents with an annual salary of RMB 200,000 (inclusive) to RMB 300,000 (exclusive) will be subsidized in line with the proportion of 50%; talents with an annual salary of RMB 300,000 (inclusive) to RMB 400,000 (exclusive) will be subsidized in line with the proportion of 60%; talents with an annual salary of RMB 400,000 (inclusive) or more will be subsidized in line with the proportion of 70%.

Those who worked full-time in key employers in the zone before May 13, 2018 and are assessed as high-level talents in the province on and after May 13, 2018 can be covered by this policy.
Talents who have enjoyed the individual income tax preferential policy in the development zone cannot enjoy it repeatedly.

VII. Accelerate the gathering of talents that are urgently needed and in short supply

(I) For those who obtain the special allowance of the State Council, the local finance will provide a matching ratio of 1:1 during their period of working in the development zone.

(II) The introduced full-time master-level talents, outstanding talents, leading talents, top-notch talents and other high-level talents will be individually given an one-time relocation allowance of RMB 100,000, RMB 80,000, RMB 60,000, RMB 40,000 and RMB 20,000 respectively.

(III) For the introduced full time high-level talent team, if the team leader is a master-level talent, outstanding talent or leading talent, the team will be provided an one-time relocation allowance of RMB 500,000, RMB 300,000, RMB 200,000 respectively.

The talents that are graduate students in urgently needed majors from “Project 211”, “Project 985”or “Double First-Class” universities, overseas returnees with master’s degree or above abroad and those who have obtained intermediate professional titles introduced by key employers will be given a one-time relocation allowance of RMB 10,000 if they become full members when the probation period expires.

(V) Talents who fall into the category of skilled workers that are urgently needed and in shortage in the development zone and are introduced by key employers will be give a one-time relocation allowance of RMB 5,000 if they become full members when the probation period expires.

Those who have enjoyed the other talent introduction preferential policies in the development zone cannot enjoy it repeatedly.

VIII. Encourage employers to reserve talents

Employers are encouraged to seize the opportunity to reserve talents and sign outstanding talents in advance. Students at school who excel in conduct and academic performance and sign formal labour contracts with key employers in the development zone for more than three years can receive appropriate financial subsidies from the development zone every year, and the subsidy standards are as follows:

(I) Full-time doctoral students, RMB 30,000 per person per academic year;

(II) Full-time graduate students from elite schools (“Project 211”, “Project 985” and “Double First-Class” universities), RMB 20,000 per person per academic year;

(III) Full-time undergraduate students from elite schools (“Project 211”, “Project 985” and “Double First-Class” universities), RMB 10,000 per person per academic year.

IX. Increase flexibility to introduce talents

(I) Provide the same treatment as full-time talents: any flexibly introduced talents who sign work contracts with key employers in the development zone for more than three years and work for more than six months in the zone each year can enjoy the same housing rental subsidizes as the officially introduced talents according to their academic qualifications, professional titles and actual working time (less than 36 months in total) or the free talent apartments provided by management committee.

They can also enjoy the same policy of purchasing houses in the development zone as the officially introduced talents, and participate in the corresponding professional title appraisal in the development zone based on their management authority.

(II) Provide health care holidays: any retired high-level “Migratory Birds” talents who sign work contracts with key employers in the development zone for more than three years and work consecutively for more than nine months each year can enjoy one month of free health care holidays in any city or county in Hainan province after working for accumulative twelve months in the development zone.

Those who choose to have the holidays in the region of Yangpu will be arranged in international high-end communities by talent department, while those who choose other cities or counties can enjoy health care subsidizes of not less than RMB 5,000/month.

(III) Provide free health examination: the flexibly introduced talents by key employers can enjoy a free health examination for each full year of working during the service period.

X. Assist in handling vehicle guarantee for talents of major leading enterprises in the zone

Major leading enterprises and projects involving development of the development zone can refer to the provisions of Measures for Optimizing Talent Introduction service Guarantee of Headquarter Enterprise Teams by Hainan Province (for Trial Implementation).

Request for using gasoline passenger cars should be made to management committee of the development zone and the organization department of Yangpu working committee should make a special declaration to the talent bureau of the provincial party committee on behalf of it.

Upon approval, the private passenger cars that meet the provincial exhaust gas emission standards under the name of enterprise talents can be allowed to go through the transfer-in registration of vehicles outside the province.

The high-level talents involved in the above ten measures refer to those who are introduced by the development zone after May 13, 2018, meet the High-Level Talents Classification Standard of Hainan Province (2019) (Q.R.C.B. [2019] No.13) and are included in the list of key employers (key industry units and major investment projects) in Yangpu economic development zone. The list of key employers will be published regularly and dynamic adjustments will be made.

The Measures shall be interpreted by the organization department of Yangpu working committee and the Yangpu Personnel and Labour Security Bureau, and will be implemented as of the date of promulgation.

The trial period will be one year and adjustments will be made in due course according to the trial situation.

Hainan Province Yangpu Economic Development Zone Working Committee of Chinese Communist Party
Yangpu Economic Development Zone Management Committee: January 7, 2020


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