According to the Qingdao Human Resource and Social Security Bureau, College Graduate Talents Reserve Programme has been formally launched. Qingdao aims to attract young talents from home and abroad for the economic and social development of Qingdao through the way ofby establishing the Qingdao Municipal Graduate Talents Center.

The functions of the newly-established Qingdao Municipal Graduate Talents Center are as follows: offering job-post recommending and docking service, internship and professional training opportunities to college graduates and highly skilled personnel who are planning to work in Qingdao; implementing employment and entrepreneurship-related preferential policies; offering personal file deputizing service; helping to conduct talents introducing procedure.

All the college graduates from home and abroad and highly skilled personnel who are willing to work in Qingdao can sign service contracts with the Qingdao Municipal Graduate Talents Center or one of its certified sub-centers (human resource service companies), and then they will be reserved talents. Personal files of graduate students who are in the sending period can be sent to graduates recruitment authority department and reserved for free charge on a voluntary basis. Relevant departments and service bureaus will implement a series of employment and entrepreneurship-related preferential policies and elaborated service measures to help reserved talents successfully find their jobs or start their business. Once reserved talents find appropriate jobs, they can settle in Qingdao.(Jia Feng)