Much needed talent in China

The service industry, as the third most important industry, will create more job opportunities. In addition, most skills with a touch of foreign influence are needed: international accounting skills, lawyers with international experience, and financial institutions with international contracts. Simultaneously, translators, insurance agents, digital media, logistics, and psychology and counseling, are also in demand. This demand for talent is expected to call for 3.25 million people.

Yang Haishan, deputy director of the Secretariat of the China Auto Talents Society (CATS), said that auto talents will be needed in the next five years, including automotive research and development talents, car-sales talents, maintenance talents and management talents.

Du Yefu, professor at the Civil Aviation University of China, said that pilots, airline crew, air transport safety management personnel and professional maintenance skills are badly needed in the coming years. The integration of mechanical energy and electricity is a major trend in future global development. There are more than 200 jobs in this field offered in Beijing. It is said that the capacity for the integration of mechanical energy and electricity is the most necessary in China.

Insurance work, the most profitable careers today, needs 5,000 talents in the next five years.

With China changing into an aging society, professional medical services for elderly people will be necessary. Home health-care nurses and doctors are also needed. In addition, the demand for specialized personal nurses will increase.

In the era of the 11th "Five-Year Plan", domestically dependent industries and high-technology industrial development are constantly growing with the demand for new materials. In this context, skills for research and development of new materials will become a focus of attention.

By People's Daily Online