Well-paid Government Employees Hired to Assist Public Administration

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Well-paid Government Employees Hired to Assist Public Administration

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Northeast Jilin Province is seeking to recruit three individuals to fill three well-paid posts who will assist in the establishment of the provincial computer network, said local officials in charge of staff recruitment Wednesday.

Once employed, the three persons will become China's first government employees with monthly salaries reaching up to 16,500 yuan (1,990 U.S. dollars). The average salary of a Chinese civil servant in the province is about 1,100 yuan (133 U.S. dollars).

The high salary policy, set by the provincial government, is part of a strategy to lure outstanding talents to participate in public service, said Wu Wenchang, the provincial government director of human resources.

Two of the vacancies are for general network engineers, and the other is for a senior webmaster. All of them will assist in the establishment and maintenance of the provincial network of public security.

According to a regulation issued by Jilin Province last June, government departments can employ necessary specialists to meet certain needs. In most cases, the employees hired in this category boast expertise in the fields of law, finance and information technology.

Although well-paid, they have no administrative duties or powers. On the contrary, they will focus only on technical tasks,Wu explained.

"The move to hire government employees is evidence of our need for talented people," said Wang Dajun, officer with the provincial department of public security.

However, the new move will not have a significant impact on the current civil service system given that the number of civil servants will be extremely limited, said Wu, adding that they willbe hired on a contract basis to complete specific projects.

Their function will be supplementary rather than supervise, said the official.

Wang Tongxun, president of the Institute of Chinese Personnel and Human Resources, attributed the recruitment to the transition of the function of the Chinese government and the fast development of science and technologies.

Chinese government departments will need more support from well-trained specialists to overcome certain technological hurdles whencarrying out administrative functions, said the senior scholar, who described the recruitment as an experiment which will have an important impact on the government's human resources system in thefuture.

Such experiments could also have a negative impact on the current system if not properly handled, said Wang, who reminded government leaders to keep an eye out for potential problems such as jealousy among colleagues.

Experts say that China's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) has raised the standards for those wishing to enter public administration. Jilin is the first in the nation to recruit government employees.

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