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Personnel system reform remove barriers to talents flow

Facing a dilemma between talent shortage and misuse, China is reforming its personnel system to encourage a free flow of human resources in the world's most populous country.

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Facing a dilemma between talent shortage and misuse, China is reforming its personnel system to encourage a free flow of human resources in the world's most populous country.

Officials said the tight control of the "bianzhi," or personnel quota, in state-owned enterprises, governments and public institutions have become major barriers hampering the free flow of talent in China.

"China should surmount the obstacles that make it difficult fortalented people to move between units of different ownership," said Ren Xiuying, a personnel official with the scientific and technological department of Hebei Province, north China.

"Human resources should be owned by society as a whole rather than by individual units," Ren said.

Personnel dossiers and residential registration papers are a must in China's work units, when people seek jobs in public institutions.

Observers say the tight control of the personnel quota is underincreasing pressure, however, as more and more private companies and foreign-funded corporations are employing a great number of competitive human resources without such requirements.

"More bold measures are needed to push for a sound flow and allocation of human resources," said Song Yujie, who was offered apost as a senior engineer at the Jiangyuan County Bureau of Water Resources, in Jilin Province, five years after her university graduation.

"Young talented people should be given more chances," Song said.

Human resources are China's primary resources, and the country should be turned from a populous nation into a big nation with abundant talented human resources, Chinese President Hu Jintao said earlier last week at a national conference on qualified personnel.

The Chinese Ministry of Personnel is reforming the old lifelongtenure personnel system and establishing a system of appointment based on contracts and regular assessment within two or three years among the some 28 million employees of public institutions.

"The new system will remove the obstacles to free human resources flow," said Shu Huiguo, vice minister of personnel.

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