The Development Course of Hundred Talents Program

The talent work of China Academy of Sciences received special attention in 1980s. At that time, the construction of scientific and technological team was mainly to make up for the fault of 10, and a series of policies and measures were successively introduced to help young talents grow rapidly and stand out. By the early 1990s, after nearly 10 years' efforts, the young scientific and technological teams of Chinese Academy of Sciences had made great progress in quantity and quality. However, the existing problems cannot be ignored. In this team, excellent academic leaders are relatively scarce, and there are few truly first-class young scientists who have a certain reputation in the world. Therefore, attracting, cultivating and bringing up a large number of outstanding young academic and technical leaders is an important task of China Academy of Sciences in 1990s.

It is under such historical conditions that the Chinese Academy of Sciences launched the "Hundred Talents Program". 1994, China academy of sciences set up a "Hundred Talents Program" with special funds from its funds under the condition of lack of resources, and focused on supporting outstanding talents by concentrating limited resources, aiming at attracting and cultivating 100 outstanding young academic leaders at home and abroad by the end of the 20th century. Zhu Rixiang, Cao Jianlin, Lu Ke, etc. 14 people became the first batch of support targets.

The Hundred Talents Program supports 2 million outstanding talents. It mainly includes scientific research funds, equipment costs and housing subsidies. It should be said that this plan launched ten years ago is the most supported talent plan in China. Although it may not be as good as some newly implemented talent programs, or as good as millions or even tens of millions of funds given by a certain unit to attract a certain talent, as a whole, the Hundred Talents Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences can still be said to be the most strongly supported at present and has become a brand of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

"Hundred Talents Program", the recruitment scale was expanded from 1997. The recruitment scale of the plan will be expanded from 2 0 people per year in the past to about 1 0 0 people per year, but the general principle remains unchanged.

The original goal of the "Hundred Talents Program" is to introduce 100 ~ 200 outstanding talents from abroad and cultivate cross-century academic and technical leaders. 1994, the "Hundred Talents Program" absorbed the first batch of talents from home and abroad, totaling 14. However, the project was completely funded by the Chinese Academy of Sciences' own scientific career expenses, and the state finance did not provide more economic support. It was not until 1998 that the Chinese Academy of Sciences began to implement the "knowledge innovation project pilot" that this difficult situation improved. With the approval of the State Council, the Ministry of Finance has increased its investment in the Innovation Fund of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, providing 200 million yuan of special funds for the "Hundred Talents Program" every year to introduce foreign talents. Since then, the "Hundred Talents Program" has entered a stage of rapid development, and the goal of the Chinese Academy of Sciences is no longer "one hundred talents" but "one thousand talents".

1998 ~ 2000 is the first phase of "knowledge innovation project". The "Hundred Talents Program" includes the introduction of foreign talents, the domestic "Hundred Talents Program", the project "Hundred Talents Program" and the winners of the National Outstanding Youth Science Fund selected for the "Hundred Talents Program". After entering the second phase in 2000, the Chinese Academy of Sciences improved and perfected the management measures in a timely and effective manner. 200 1 added the content that innovative teams attract "famous overseas scholars".

Since the implementation of the Hundred Talents Plan, it has become more than just a plan to attract overseas talents. The Hundred Talents Program pays equal attention to cultivating talents and attracting talents. Among its candidates, there are outstanding scientific and technological talents recruited from abroad and grown up in China, as well as talents who have studied and worked abroad but have returned to work. With the start of the pilot project of knowledge innovation, with the support of the state finance, the Chinese Academy of Sciences launched the "Introduction of Foreign Outstanding Talents Program" and the "Overseas Famous Scholars" program on 200 1. So far, the model of "Hundred Talents Program" to recruit "foreign outstanding talents", "overseas famous scholars" and "domestic hundred talents program" has been established. By the end of 2005, the "Hundred Talents Program" had supported a total of 1443 scientific and technological elites.

At the beginning of 2002, China Academy of Sciences conducted a comprehensive investigation on the progress and implementation of the "Hundred Talents Program" and found some problems in the old management model. In 2003, the Chinese Academy of Sciences decided to carry out major reforms and adjustments to the planned management model. Winners of "Hundred Talents Program" have changed from "recommendation and decision-making by the hospital" to "independent decision-making and merit-based support by the hospital". Since 2004, China Academy of Sciences has paid more attention to the evaluation of academic ethics and team spirit in the process of primary defense of the "Hundred Talents Program" and the application and final evaluation of the winners of the "Hundred Talents Program". On the one hand, it embodies the principle of "having both ability and political integrity" in the selection and employment of Chinese Academy of Sciences; On the other hand, candidates are also required to pay attention to self-cultivation and the improvement of comprehensive quality, so as to be self-disciplined.

In 2006, with the knowledge innovation project entering the third phase, the scientific and technological development goals of Chinese Academy of Sciences put forward higher requirements for the construction of talent team, and the introduction and training of talents were further strengthened. "Introduction of Foreign Talents" plans to introduce 500 overseas talents in five years, and the domestic "Hundred Talents Plan" supports the introduction of domestic talents urgently needed in the western region and some special fields 100; Combined with the deployment of major projects and important direction projects in the scientific and technological innovation base, 200 outstanding talents will be introduced and supported through the project "Hundred Talents Plan"; Continue to give follow-up support to the winners of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (hereinafter referred to as "Jie Qing"); The third phase of innovation will pay more attention to the training of young talents, and increase the training of young talents by providing scientific research and entrepreneurship support and postdoctoral funding for outstanding young scientific and technological talents.