Gathering youth wisdom, jointly discussing talent retention strategies
On the evening of November 10, Huaihua held its first session of Youth Cadre Symposium --“Huaihua: A City for the Future”. And it has a theme of “Retaining Young People—Huaihua's Approach to a Youth-Friendly City”. Zhang Gong, member of the Standing Committee of the Huaihua Municipal Party Committee and director of the Huaihua Municipal Organization Department, attended the event and delivered a speech.
Zhang pointed out that young talents should identify their own positioning, clarify their development paths in line with their professional expertise, family background, and career aspirations. They should set scientifically achievable phased goals, and overcome the ambivalence of "wanting to stay yet wanting to leave." He emphasized the need to precisely attract talents tailored to local industrial development needs, by identifying bottlenecks and talent gaps in key industries such as agriculture, industry, and cultural tourism, and by focusing on recruiting professionals for extended industrial chain needs including deep processing of agricultural products and implementation of cultural tourism IPs. Efforts should be made to improve the living environment for talents. This includes paying attention to the quality of accommodation, dining, and social interaction beyond the "8-hour workday,", optimizing the full-chain mechanism from early-stage university outreach to regular feedback platforms, and proactively responding to changes in market-oriented talent attraction policies. Furthermore, he stressed the importance of refining performance evaluation and incentive mechanisms, promoting differentiated rewards through "subsidies instead of grants," building a diversified recognition system combining political treatment, honorary incentives, and economic returns, and establishing a quantitative effectiveness evaluation mechanism.
At the meeting, seven young cadre representatives delivered speeches and learned perspectives. They were from Hecheng-Zhongfang Integration Development Affairs Center, Huaihua Industrial Investment Group Co., Ltd., Huaihua Municipal Publicity Department, Huaihua Municipal Working Committee of Directly Affiliated Organs, Huaihua Municipal Social Work Department, Huaihua Municipal Bureau of Human Resources and Social Security, and Municipal Bureau of Housing and Urban-Rural Development.
(Translated by Dong Yue)