China to Speed up Human Capacity Building: MinisterA senior Chinese official has pledged that China will seize the opportunity to enhance human capacity building and accelerate the implementation of talent development strategy.Minister of Personnel Zhang Xuezhong made the remark here Tuesday at the first plenary meeting of the APEC High Level Meeting on Human Capacity Building. Zhang, a co-chairman of the meeting, said that China has integrated education, science and technology and talents into national development strategy as the driving force behind and guarantee of social economic development. "We have given top priority to education and economic development and increase input so as to promote educational reform and development, strengthening primary education, vigorously developing education of higher learning and vocational training, pushing forward quality education and developing a life-long learning education system," Zhang said. According to official statistics, the number of college students enrolled is 9.4 million, and among every 100,000 people there are 3,611 people with at least college education, an increase of 154 percent over the 1,422 people in 1990. China is combining its human resource restructuring with the ongoing industrial restructuring, rural economic development and urbanization, and the west development strategy, according to the official. China is intensifying institutional reform and creating a sound environment for talents to stand out and display their ability, he said. The minister said that China has been increasing its exchanges with foreign countries on the issue of human resource development. Up to now, the number of Chinese students studying abroad has totaled 330,000, and 110,000 of them have returned. Meanwhile, China has received 400,000 students from more than 160 foreign countries and regions. Since 1978, China has employed 824,000 foreign experts and sent 378,000 technicians or managers to study abroad. According to the official, China is promoting cooperation to enhance overall strength of human capacity building. In addition to the active role of the government, all social forces are mobilized to increase input into human resource development, he noted. China has set up 1,200 Post-doctoral Mobility Stations and enterprises-based research stations, which have received 14,000 post-doctoral researchers. Currently, there are nearly 7,000 post- doctoral researchers in these stations. As an APEC member, China is willing to increase cooperation and exchanges with other economies and meet new challenges together, so as to make new contributions to the economic development and social prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region, the official said. |
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