The Changchun National High-Tech Industrial Development Zone in Jilin province made great progress in attracting and protecting talents in 2014.

The zone focused on enhancing talent policy in the past year and attracted more than 4,500 workers in 2014, with an investment of 800 million yuan ($131.1 million).

Enhancing the area's talent policy and promoting talent branding remains as the top priority for the city, which believes human resources is key to the region's development.

In 2014, more than 60 people from 57 companies applied for the fourth batch of the "Changbai Wisdom Valley" program. Of them, 22 were selected and received a total subsidy of 4.3 million yuan.

Financial subsidies for the first three batches of the project, which totaled 3.60 million yuan, were also given to involved companies.

The high-tech zone spent more than 65.70 million yuan to support a variety of talent schemes and awarded a total of 32.13 million yuan to outstanding high-tech projects.

A meeting on the Changchun Talent Management and Reform Zone on December 31.[Photo provided to China Daily]

The city also put great effort into cooperating with research institutions and universities. This greatly helped to attract people to return to Changchun from other cities. There are now 25 companies in the area that were newly established by universities.

The zone attracted 96 hightech projects in 2014, which in turn attracted more than 200 management professionals.

The local innovation park for overseas returned professionals as well as several other high-tech incubators, for technology startups, introduced 73 incubation projects and more than 650 technology workers.

In the past year, the city organized more than 46 job fairs and more than 170,000 people in the district were employed.