Two college graduates read a job description at a recruitment fair held in Taiyuan, North China's Shanxi Province on February 8, 2022. Photo:cnsphoto

With talent introduction and cultivation policies further completed and enriched in multiple places across China, "new first-tier cities" have released a large number of job opportunities and talented professionals are in high demand in high-tech manufacturing-related industries, a report shows.  

Three "new first-tier cities" including Chengdu, Chongqing and Wuhan released a large number of job opportunities with their recruitment demands exceeding that of Beijing, media reported. These cities, which have been hubs for social and economic development, have continued to roll out new policies and compete for the most talented people, according to the latest report on the trends of talent flows in the third quarter of 2022 jointly released by leading Chinese life services platform 58.com and ganji.com. 

Emerging cities have been developing rapidly in recent years with their industrial structures staying in line with the current demand from the overall employment situation. This, combined with employment policies rolled out by local governments that have absorbed and digested policies used in first-tier cities, has generated an all-encompassing effect, Chen Shida, a senior research fellow at Zhejiang Institution of Talent Development, told the Global Times on Tuesday.

The report shows that southern parts of China are popular among job-hunters, with Shenzhen in South China's Guangdong Province topping the list of the most desired cities in the third quarter of this year. Particularly since the beginning of this year, Shenzhen has reiterated its "industrial city" target. Under the dual attractions of policy and industry, talented professionals have moved south to seek new career opportunities, the report shows.  

Cities including Southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, Guangzhou in South China's Guangdong Province and Chengdu in Southwest China's Sichuan Province also presented a strong "siphon effect," since it has become a social consensus that "talent is the prime factor" of development as China's economic growth model has gradually shifted to an innovation-driven mode, according to the report. 

Among them, Chongqing's talent introduction and cultivation policies are very attractive. Policies such as supporting young talents with innovation and entrepreneurship, talent development in the big data intelligence industry, and promoting the high-quality development of talented teams from the platforms of high-level scientific and technological innovation have been rolled out. 

Since national development strategies such as the development plan for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and the outline of the integrated regional development of the Yangtze River Delta have been carried out in the southern parts of China, these places are more in line with young people's expectations of future employment destinations with their development prospects and trends, Chen said. 

The report analyzes the current trend of talent flows in the job market from the dimensions of position, salary and city. It shows that job-hunting demands in Shanghai gained a 7.69 percent increase compared with the last quarter with the full operation and business resumptions after the spring COVID-19 outbreak. 

Dongguan in Guangdong and Qingdao in East China's Shandong Province saw year-on-year growth in job demands, with respective increases of 15.75 percent and 8.53 percent. 

Another new report on the trend of employment relations released by the National School of Development at Peking University shows that 81.6 percent of enterprises have started digital transformation which has become the mainstream trend of enterprise development. For companies, digital transformation has become a priority, with a long-term and overall significance. 

The latest recruitment salary report on Chinese enterprises in 38 core cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Wuhan in Central China's Hubei Province, and Xiamen in East China's Fujian Province, released by Chinese online recruitment service provider zhaopin.com shows that salaries in the high-tech manufacturing industry continued to rise in the third quarter this year as the sector experiences rapid development, with strong demand for talents and constantly rising salaries and benefits. 

In the large equipment, mechanical and electrical equipment and heavy industry sector, the recruitment salary rose to 9,861 yuan ($1,370) per month in the third quarter.