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SUZHOU, China, July 12, 2021 /Xinhua=KYODO JBN/--

On July 10, 2021 (13th) Venture Week for International Elites in Suzhou and the

2nd Suzhou Scientists Day opened at Suzhou International Expo Center. This

year's Venture Week attracted 78 academicians to attend the event, more than

3,000 talented guests participated in the event, and a total of 3139 projects

participated in the docking, according to the Organizing Committee of the

Venture Week.

Venture Week is a major talent recruitment activity that Suzhou focuses on. It

has been held annually since 2009. A total of 7,287 projects have been

introduced and settled in the last twelve sessions. The Venture Week was

carried out in the form of a combination of online and offline. The main event

will continue until July 12, and the public platform has collected a total of

2,204 innovative and entrepreneurial projects to participate in the docking.

At the opening ceremony, the "Suzhou New Talent Policy" was released, and four

new talent policies were launched, including the "Fifteen Articles of Suzhou

Talent System Reform" and "Measures to further encourage and support overseas

Chinese students to innovate and start business in Suzhou". 57 major innovation

projects were signed, focusing on strategic emerging industries, with

investment of over 12 billion yuan. At the scene, three academicians Shen

Xuechu, Tang Shuxian, and Xu Hongxing were hired as members of the Strategic

Advisory Committee of the Gusu Laboratory of Materials Science.

The National 3rd-generation Semiconductor Technology Innovation Center, which

settled in Suzhou, announced the global talent recruitment and unveiling

project, with 300 million yuan in talent pool and 50 billion yuan in project

plans to attract talents from all over the world to participate in scientific

research.

To speed up the pace of "Integration of Shanghai-Suzhou" and deepen the

exchange and cooperation of talents between Shanghai and Suzhou, at the opening

ceremony, the Plan of Shanghai-Suzhou Science and Technology Resources Sharing

and Promotion was launched. Companies from Shanghai and the Suzhou also jointly

released a new batch of 459 technical requirements, with an amount of more than

1.5 billion yuan on the list.

Source: The Organizing Committee of Suzhou Venture Week for International Elites

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