The Chengdu High-Tech Industrial Development Zone, one of China's top high-tech zones in Southwest China's Sichuan province, is attracting more high-end talents from overseas for its future development.

Last month, the zone held a talent recruitment activity in California's Silicon Valley, in the United States. Five IT companies in the high-tech zone attracted 200 interviewees from North America to the event.

Tang Mengchen, who was born in Sichuan, finished her undergraduate study in the US and now works in San Francisco. She came to the event with several friends from Chengdu.

"We all care about the development of our hometown, and we have been thinking about going back home to make our contributions," Tang said. "The Chengdu high-tech zone provides us with an excellent platform as it gathers so many first-class companies."

About 20 students at the University of California, Berkeley, also went to the activity.

Li Yin, a representative of a Chinese student association at the university, said China is full of opportunities and is appealing to the students at his university.

"This activity offers us detailed information about the employment environment in China and especially in the Chengdu high-tech zone, giving us more confidence (to work in China)," he said.

Lin Shengheng, founder of the Northern California Chinese Coalition, said he was impressed by the talent recruitment activity.

"Although it is the first time the Chengdu high-tech zone has come to the United States for talent recruitment, the activity has attracted so many top personnel, which demonstrates its charm and strength," he said.

The high-tech zone also strengthened the development of its workstation in the US through the recruitment event. It will work as a gateway for the zone to enhance communication and exchanges with the world's leading high-tech industries and top-level talents, and to help bring in more projects and talents from the US, according to the event organizers.

The recruitment activity held in Silicon Valley is the beginning of a series of overseas recruitment activities under the Chengdu Tianfu Talent Action project from the Chengdu High-Tech Industrial Development Zone. The next recruitment event will be held in Seoul.

Chengdu Tianfu Talent Action is an annual event held by the management committee of the high-tech zone since 2007. It has been held in cities including Chengdu, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Dalian over the past nine years.

More than 100 social recruitment and campus recruitment fairs are held each year, attracting 100,000 people annually from around the country and recruiting more than 8,000 of them for companies in the zone.

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(China Daily 10/27/2016 page19)