Xi Jinping Attends Central Talent Work Conference and Delivers Important Speech

Xi Jinping Stresses at Central Talent Work Conference
In-depth implementation of the strategy of strengthening the country with talents in the new era and accelerating the construction of the world's important talent center and innovation highland
Li Keqiang presided over Li Zhanshu, Wang Yang, Zhao Leji, and Han Zheng attended Wang Huning's speech.

The Central Talent Work Conference was held in Beijing from September 27 to 28. Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission attended the meeting and delivered an important speech, emphasizing the need to adhere to the party's management of talents, adhere to the frontiers of world science and technology, the main economic battlefield, the major needs of the country, and the lives and health of the people. The strategy of strengthening the country with talents in the new era, training, introducing and making good use of talents in all-round, speeding up the construction of the world, accelerating the construction of the world and innovation, to lay a good foundation for the comprehensive construction of a socialist modern power by 2050.
Li Keqiang presided over the meeting. li zhanshu, wang yang, zhao leji, and han zheng attended the meeting. Wang Huning made a concluding speech.
In his speech, Xi Jinping pointed out that in the course of a hundred years of struggle, our party has always attached importance to cultivating talents, uniting talents, leading talents, and achieving talents, uniting and supporting talents from all aspects to contribute to the cause of the party and the people. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee has made a major judgment that talents are the strategic resources for realizing national rejuvenation and winning the initiative of international competition, and has made major arrangements for all-round training, introduction and use of talents, so as to promote historic achievements and historic changes in talent work in the new era. The party's leadership over talent work has been comprehensively strengthened, the talent team has grown rapidly, the efficiency of talents has continued to increase, and the comparative advantages of talents have been steadily enhanced. my country already has a large-scale, high-quality, continuously optimized structure, and increasingly prominent talent team. At a new historical starting point.
Xi Jinping stressed: at present, China has entered a new journey of building a modern socialist country in an all-round way and marching towards the goal of the second century, and we are closer to the grand goal of realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation than at any time in history. we are also more eager for talents than at any time in history. To achieve our goal, high-level science and technology self-reliance is the key. In the final analysis, the competition of comprehensive national strength is the competition of talents. Talent is an important indicator to measure a country's comprehensive national strength. The development of the country depends on talents, and the revitalization of the nation depends on talents. We must strengthen our sense of hardship, pay more attention to the independent cultivation of talents, and accelerate the establishment of competitive advantages in human resources.
Xi Jinping pointed out that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee has profoundly answered the major theoretical and practical questions of why to build a strong country with talents, what is a strong country with talents, and how to build a strong country with talents, and put forward a series of new concepts, new strategies and new measures. The first is to adhere to the party's overall leadership of talent work, the second is to adhere to the strategic position of talents leading development, the third is to adhere to the world's scientific and technological frontier, the main economic battlefield, the country's major needs, and the people's life and health. The fourth is to adhere to all-round training and use Good talents, the fifth is to insist on deepening the reform of the talent development system and mechanism, and the sixth is to gather talents from all over the world and use, seventh, we insist on creating an environment in which talents are known, loved, respected and used, and eighth, we insist on promoting the spirit of scientists. The above eight articles are the deepening of our understanding of the regularity of the development of China's talent cause, and we should always adhere to and constantly enrich and develop.
Xi Jinping stressed that to speed up the construction of the world's important talent center and innovation highland, we must grasp the strategic initiative and do a good job in top-level design and strategic planning. Our goal is: by 2025, the investment in research and development of the whole society will increase significantly, important progress will be made in the construction of the main force of scientific and technological innovation, the gathering level of top scientists will be significantly improved, and the ability of independent training of talents will be continuously enhanced. we will have a large number of strategic scientific and technological talents, first-class scientific and technological leaders and innovation teams in key core technology fields. By 2030, a talent system adapted to high-quality development will be basically formed, the attraction to the world's outstanding talents has increased significantly. There are a group of leaders in major scientific and technological fields, and a group of pioneers in emerging frontier cross-fields; by 2035, my country will form a comparative advantage in talent competition in many fields, and the national strategic scientific and technological strength and The high-level talent team ranks among the top in the world.
Xi Jinping pointed out that to speed up the construction of the world's important talent center and innovation highland, the need for strategic layout. Comprehensive consideration, high-level talent highlands can be built in Beijing, Shanghai, and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. Some central cities with high-level talents should also focus on building platforms to attract and gather talents, carry out comprehensive reform pilots of talent development systems and mechanisms, and concentrate the country. High-quality resources focus on supporting the construction of a number of national laboratories and new R & D institutions, launching international science plans, and providing talents with a world-class innovation platform, accelerate the formation of strategic fulcrums and wild goose formations.
Xi Jinping stressed the need to deepen the reform of the talent development system and mechanism. It is necessary to fully authorize the main body of employment according to needs and reality, and give full play to the positive role of the main body of employment in the training, introduction and use of talents. The main body of employment should give full play to its subjective initiative, enhance its service awareness and guarantee ability, establish an effective self-restraint and external supervision mechanism, and ensure that the delegated authority can be received and used well. Employers must earnestly perform their main responsibilities, and be held accountable if they do not use authorization or perform their responsibilities properly. It is necessary to actively untie talents, improve the talent management system, and achieve talent-oriented, trust, respect, treat, and tolerate talents. It is necessary to give scientists greater power to decide technical routes, greater power to control funds, and greater power to dispatch resources. At the same time, it is necessary to establish and improve the responsibility system and military order system to ensure the effectiveness of scientific research projects. It is necessary to deepen the reform of the management of scientific research funds, optimize and integrate the talent plan, and let talents meditate on learning and research, so as to produce more and good results. It is necessary to improve the talent evaluation system, accelerate the establishment of a talent evaluation system guided by innovative value, ability, and contribution, and form and implement an evaluation system that is conducive to the dedicated research and innovation of scientific and technological talents.
Xi Jinping pointed out: it is necessary to vigorously train and use strategic scientists, adhere to practical standards, and find scientists with profound scientific literacy, long-term struggle in the front line of scientific research, broad vision, forward-looking judgment, interdisciplinary understanding ability, and strong leadership ability in the combat organization of the large corps among the leaders of the country's major scientific and technological tasks. It is necessary to adhere to a long-term vision, consciously discover and train more high-level compound talents with the potential of strategic scientists, and form a growth echelon of strategic scientists.
Xi Jinping stressed: it is necessary to build a large number of first-class scientific and technological leading talents and innovation teams, give full play to the role of national laboratories, national scientific research institutions, high-level research universities, and scientific and technological leading enterprises, and revolve around national key areas and key industries. organize industry-university-research cooperation to tackle key problems. It is necessary to optimize the mechanism for discovering leading talents and the mechanism for selecting project teams, and implement special policies for leading talents such as supporting talent echelons, supporting scientific research conditions, and supporting management mechanisms. It is necessary to create a large-scale team of young scientific and technological talents, focus the policy of cultivating national strategic talents on young scientific and technological talents, and support young talents to take the lead and play the leading role. It is necessary to train a large number of outstanding engineers and strive to build a team of engineers who love the party and serve the country, are dedicated to their work, have outstanding technological innovation capabilities, and are good at solving complex engineering problems. It is necessary to mobilize the enthusiasm of universities and enterprises to realize the deep integration of production, teaching and research.
Xi Jinping pointed out that great efforts should be made to cultivate, introduce and make good use of talents in all directions. my country has the world's largest higher education system and a broad stage for the development of various undertakings. It is fully capable of continuously cultivating a large number of outstanding talents and cultivating masters. We must have such determination and such confidence. To take the road of independent talent training, colleges and universities, especially "double first-class" universities, should play the role of the main force in training basic research talents, plan the training of basic disciplines in an all-round way, build a number of basic discipline training bases, and cultivate high-level compound talents. It is necessary to formulate and implement a special project for basic research talents, and long-term and stable support for a group of young talents who have made outstanding achievements in the field of natural sciences and have obvious innovation potential. It is necessary to train a large number of philosophers, social scientists, literary artists and other talents. It is necessary to strengthen the international exchange of talents. It is necessary to make good use of all kinds of talents, to deal with special talents who are in urgent need, to have special policies, not to ask for full blame, not to judge seniority, not to use a ruler to measure, so that talented heroes with real talents have a place to use. It is necessary to establish a mechanism for the use of talents based on trust, allow failure, tolerate failure, and encourage leading talents in science and technology to go out in command. It is necessary to build a platform for all kinds of talents to start their own businesses, and build an income distribution mechanism that fully reflects the value of innovative elements such as knowledge and technology, so that the cause can motivate talents and enable talents to achieve their careers.
Xi Jinping stressed: to do a good job in the work of talents, we must adhere to the correct political direction, constantly strengthen and improve the work of intellectuals, encourage talents to cherish patriotism, sharpen their aspirations to serve the country, and take the initiative to shoulder the mission and responsibility entrusted by the times. The vast number of talents should inherit and carry forward the outstanding qualities of the older generation of scientists who have the motherland in mind and serve the people, and have the "big country" in mind, share worries for the country, solve difficulties for the country, and perform their duties for the country. It is necessary to optimize the talent commendation and reward system, increase the publicity of advanced models, and promote the formation of a fashion of respecting talents in the whole society.
Xi Jinping pointed out that party committees (party groups) at all levels must improve the unified leadership of party committees, the organization department takes the lead in grasping the general, the functional departments perform their duties, cooperate closely, and the extensive participation of social forces. All regions and departments should base themselves on reality, highlight key points, and solve practical problems that are strongly reflected by talents. It is necessary to increase investment in talent development and improve the efficiency of talent investment. The propaganda departments of party committees at all levels, and the education, science and technology, industry and information technology, security, human resources, cultural tourism, state-owned assets, finance, and foreign affairs departments of governments at all levels must give full play to their functions and work together to implement various tasks in talent work.
When presiding over the meeting, Li Keqiang pointed out that General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech comprehensively reviewed the historic achievements and historical changes in talent work since the 18th National Congress of the Party from the perspective of the overall development of the party and the country. The new situation, new tasks and new challenges faced by talent work have scientifically answered a series of major theoretical and practical issues in talent work in the new era, it clarifies the guiding ideology, strategic objectives, key tasks, policies and measures, points out the way forward, provides fundamental follow-up, has a strong political, ideological and theoretical nature, and is a programmatic document guiding the work of talents in the new era. It is necessary to conscientiously study and implement, strengthen the "four consciousness," strengthen the "four self-confidence," and achieve the "two maintenance," and turn the spirit of the meeting into a powerful driving force for doing a good job in talent work, into ideas and measures to promote the high-quality development of talent work, into a vivid practice of speeding up the construction of a powerful country with talents, and constantly creating a new situation in the party's talent work.
In his concluding speech, Wang Huning said that General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech was from a strategically advantageous position, with a broad vision, rich connotation, and profound thinking, and scientifically answered a series of major theoretical and practical questions about talent work in the new era. it has a strong political, ideological, guiding, and pertinence. It is necessary to thoroughly study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's new concepts, strategies and measures on talent work in the new era, and promote the implementation of various decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee on talent work in the new era. It is necessary to do a good job in studying, publicizing and implementing the spirit of the conference.
Responsible comrades from Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, Ministry of Education, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, and Tsinghua University made exchange speeches.
Members of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, Secretary of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee, relevant leading comrades of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, State Councilors, President of the Supreme People's Court, Procurator General of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, and relevant leading comrades of the CPPCC National Committee attended the meeting.
Members of the Central Leading Group for Talent Work, all provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government, cities under separate state planning, Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, various departments of the central and state agencies, various people's organizations, and relevant departments of the Central Military Commission are mainly responsible comrades and responsible comrades in charge, and central financial enterprises, Some important state-owned backbone enterprises, and major responsible comrades of central management universities attended the meeting.

Source: Xinhua