Jiaxing pins hopes for innovative development on foreign professionals

Jiaxing's first innovation center for high-level foreign experts is unveiled in Nanhu district on April 21. [Photo/zjol.com.cn]

Jiaxing in East China's Zhejiang province unveiled its first innovation center for high-level foreign experts in Nanhu district on April 21.

The center, aimed at attracting high-caliber talents from around the world, will be jointly constructed and operated by the Zhejiang Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs and the administration committee of Jiaxing Science City, according to an agreement signed between the two parties.

The agreement also stated that the provincial administration of foreign expert affairs will support Nanhu by organizing international exchange activities, introducing overseas talents and providing preferential policies to help the district build a comprehensive platform for talent cultivation, technological research, application and commercialization of research findings, and logistics services.

Yang Lingzhu, deputy director of the administrative committee of Jiaxing Science City, hailed the agreement as a significant step forward for Jiaxing in strengthening its international profile.

Foreign guests are invited to witness the setup of Jiaxing's first innovation center for high-level foreign experts on April 21. [Photo/zjol.com.cn]

Jiaxing has been prioritizing talent cultivation in recent years. The city has been consistently working to strengthen the development of various platforms designed to facilitate exchange and cooperation among global professionals. It has also been emphasizing project development and scientific and technological research in the city.

People visit Jiaxing Science City in Nanhu district of Jiaxing, Zhejiang province on April 21. [Photo/zjol.com.cn]

Over the past several years, Nanhu has made remarkable achievements in talent recruitment. Edvard Moser, a Norwegian psychologist and neuroscientist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 2014, Whitfield Diffie, a prestigious cryptographer and winner of the 2015 Turing Award, as well as hundreds of experts from home and abroad joined hands with the district to push forward innovative development.

Yang said they will grasp the opportunities brought about by the new innovation center and improve services to retain experts.