Expert opinions on how to develop Greater Bay Area into a talent highland

Incentives would help to attract and retain high-end talents, said Zhang Chuanwei, chairman and chief executive officer of China Mingyang Wind Power Group and a deputy to the National People's Congress.

Mingyang took only 14 years to develop from a distribution box manufacturer into a leader of the new energy sector. "The industrial upgrading and transformation of Mingyang couldn't have been achieved without the introduction of talents," Zhang said. "Mingyang set up customized incentives to attract and retain high-end talents to give full play to their professional skills and exert their abilities."

Zhang Chuanwen at a forum held in Zhongshan, Guangdong province, March 28, 2018 notes that incentives would help attract and retain high-end talents in the Greater Bay Area. [Photo/zsnews.cn]

Peng Chunhua, an associate professor at the Party School of the Guangdong Provincial Committee (also known as Guangdong Institute of Public Administration), noted that accelerating the development of leading industries in the Greater Bay Area would help to attract and retain talents.

The world's top three city clusters – San Francisco, New York and Tokyo – all have their own leading industries – biotechnology and electronic information, financial industry, and industrial manufacturing respectively. According to Peng, the attraction and retention of talents in the Greater Bay Area should depend on the key industries in the area: Hong Kong's financial industry, the electronic information industry on the east coast of the Pearl River, and the advanced manufacturing industry on the west coast of the river.

At a forum in Zhongshan, Guangdong province, March 28, 2018, Peng Chunhua states that the development of key industries in the Greater Bay Area would help to attract and retain talents. [Photo/zsnews.cn]