【Incentives for attracting talent】Postdoctoral researchers who stay in Shenzhen can receive 300,000 yuan in scientific research funding

In recent years, Shenzhen has issued a series of talent policies and regulations, based on the needs of economic and social development. It is committed to creating a high-quality environment for talented human resources and building institutional advantages with international competitiveness. Through the upgrading of its related policies, the city is promoting the transformation from "attracting talent with policies" to "forming an environment and culture conducive for talent gathering," based on a market-oriented approach. The city’s warm welcome and financial benefits attract continuous inflows of talented people.

Shenzhen is striving to build itself into a city of dreams and a place where the world's talents look forward to living and working.

In order to further strengthen the management of postdoctoral graduates’ entry and exit of workstations, and continue to promote the reform of "decentralization, management and service," the Shenzhen Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau has issued a notice on simplifying the related procedures governing their entry, exit and termination of work, as well as registration and assessment, while also providing generous subsidies for postdoctoral researchers.

At present, Shenzhen has 15 mobile workstations, 128 substations, 355 innovation practice bases, and nine recruiting units based in universities for postdoctoral researchers.

In Shenzhen, postdoctoral stations are divided into four categories: postdoctoral research mobile stations, postdoctoral research workstations (substations), municipal postdoctoral innovation practice bases, and recruiting units based in universities. The latter include Shenzhen University, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), and the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen).

The stations also include Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Pengcheng Laboratory, Shenzhen Bay Laboratory, and other high-end research institutes. Fortune 500 enterprises in Shenzhen like Huawei, ZTE, and Tencent, emerging technology enterprises like SenseTime and BGI, and high-level hospitals like Shenzhen People's Hospital and the Second People's Hospital all have their own postdoctoral stations.

Over the past five years, the annual growth rate of newly introduced postdoctoral researchers in Shenzhen has exceeded 30%. By the end of October 2021, Shenzhen boasted 5,013 such researchers, exceeding the 5,000 milestone for the first time to take the lead among sub-provincial-level cities. 

Key requirements:

Those who have obtained a doctor's degree under the age of 35 can apply for positions at the postdoctoral stations. After the postdoctoral researchers have completed their work, the stations shall go through the exit procedures for them according to the relevant provisions of the national postdoctoral administrative department or provincial human resources departments where the stations are located.

Policy benefits:

The standard of living allowance for postdoctoral researchers in mobile stations is 150,000 yuan per person per year from provincial coffers, with an additional 60,000 yuan per person per year in the form of municipal subsidies. For those who work at the stations, innovation bases or other units, the living allowance for postdoctoral researchers is 180,000 yuan per person per year. Such allowances shall be paid for up to two years.

Postdoctoral researchers who have finished their stints at workstations and who choose to stay in the city to engage in research and sign employment contracts with local enterprises and institutions for more than three years will be given 300,000 yuan as a research grant.

Application procedures:

The applicant must first log in to the "Guangdong Government Affairs Service Network," then search for "funding for newly introduced postdocs in Shenzhen," and submit the related materials.

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Consulting hotline: 0755-12333 (Shenzhen Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau Hotline)