On the morning of October 25, the Greater Bay Area University in Dongguan City, Guangdong Province was bustling with people. Mr. Wang and his friends stood in front of the employer directory display board of the "4th Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Talent High-Quality Development Conference and Doctoral and Postdoctoral Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition" and stared at the "Special Matchmaking Meeting for Returned Overseas Talents" section for a closer look.
This native of Shenyang, who graduated from Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany, majoring in data science, has returned to China after working in related technical work abroad for two years and is looking for a suitable position in the Greater Bay Area. His goal was originally very clear - data positions in state-owned enterprises, or data positions in other large companies. But after walking around the postdoctoral innovation and entrepreneurship competition roadshow area, he had an additional roadshow project introduction material in his hand: "Many start-ups are directly related to my major, so I don't have to just focus on big companies."
The conference officially opened on the 25th. It integrates six major sections: summit event, business innovation competition, industry open microphone, theme exhibition, negotiation and docking, and talent carnival. It sends an invitation to global talents to resonate with the future of the Bay Area.
During the two years of working abroad, Mr. Wang observed China's rapid development in the field of data processing in the direction of intelligent computing and artificial intelligence. In his words, "This domestic technology is 'old', and many foreign technologies are imported from China." Coupled with the fact that domestic income is more competitive and the development environment of the Greater Bay Area is superior, "then we might as well return to China and work at home," he said with a smile.
Regarding competitive pressure, Mr. Wang has his own judgment: competitive pressure itself has a screening effect. The greater the pressure, the more differentiated the talent levels can be. He also admitted frankly that foreign countries have a serious aging population and a shortage of talents. Some industries have higher incomes and less competition. However, foreigners' long-term promotion space there is limited. As a Chinese, it is more pragmatic to return to China for development.
Outside the recruitment area, in the postdoctoral innovation and entrepreneurship competition, technology is looking for an outlet for implementation.
The competition has attracted more than 3,800 project teams and nearly 12,000 doctoral and postdocs from home and abroad to participate, and 306 high-quality projects were finally selected to advance to the finals.
Wu Juntao, a doctoral student jointly trained by the University of the Greater Bay Area and Sun Yat-sen University, took the "High-Performance Diffractive Optical Elements" project all the way to the finals. Currently, the project has completed small and pilot tests and is currently sampling in small batches. "Through this competition, we feel that research results can not only be published in journal papers, but can also be directly implemented in production lines." Wu Juntao said.
Sang Ming, the founder of Guangdong Konyin Humanoid Robot Technology Co., Ltd., is a doctoral candidate in the joint training program between the University of the Greater Bay Area and Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen). He founded the company in Dongguan's Songshan Lake Mass Entrepreneurship Community in August last year and completed a seed round of financing in March this year.
"In the Greater Bay Area, the upstream and downstream resources of the humanoid robot industry chain can be easily allocated in a short period of time." Sang Ming said that after settling in the mass entrepreneurship and innovation community, the company received support such as rent reduction, coaching and resource docking. The team completed the prototype iteration in just half a year and is currently promoting angel round financing.
The organizer stated that this year’s talent conference has wider connections, with government departments, universities and institutions, key enterprises and young talents from Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao attending in groups; the content is more lively, you can go to the "Open Microphone" to share your insights after listening to the keynote speech, and you can view projects after submitting your resume; the chain is more connected, and the negotiation and docking area connects talents, projects, capital and scenarios, etc.
The five negotiation and docking areas cover different needs. Among them, the entrepreneurship support docking area brings together 31 roadshow projects and 54 venture capital institutions; the achievement transformation docking area allows face-to-face negotiations between achievements and industries; the postdoctoral and overseas study talent recruitment area has 176 employers recruiting talents on-site, providing 4,074 doctoral positions and 1,861 master's positions.
Duan Junfeng, deputy director of the Guangdong Provincial Talent Service Bureau, said that the conference always sends a clear signal to global talents: the Bay Area welcomes you. First, if you can come, the job will be on site and you will get the opportunity directly; second, if you can stay, policy services will be more practical and implementation costs will be lower; third, if you can develop well, industrial ecological support and services will continue to follow up, allowing talents to develop better in the Bay Area.
Mr. Wang looked at the roadshow project information manual and wrote down the names of several start-up companies. In his backpack, in addition to his resume, he also had a specific vision of the Bay Area.
