Ningbo, a port in China’s Zhejiang province, has been attracting talents from inside the country in its famous “Ningbo Week of Talents, Science and Technology” event for last nine years. Now, this fast-developing city looks abroad, including Nepal, for talents.

With sizeable perks and offers that come along, this event showcases new and innovative ideas in science. It is now expecting more foreign talents to get involved and work in the city, which boasts of a big port that supplies goods internally and to the world outside.        

This year’s event was held from October 10-14, in which more than 1,300 companies from China took part. “Till date the event has not presented innovative ideas from Nepal. We have certain prerequisites and set criteria, and if the product meets our standard, we are more than happy to welcome them in Ningbo,” said Liu Jun, deputy director of the event, addressing the media last week.

She said the selected candidates will be guided by reputed entrepreneurs who will help these young talents foster and grow and build their idea as enterprise.

From a state-of-the-art pathological machine that produces results in minutes and a robot that imitates the inputs immediately and imprint it to robust tyres and traditional tea making ideas to display of the Pipa, traditional Chinese guitar and other handicrafts, this year’s show was an amalgamation of culture and innovation.

Qiming Yu, marketing deputy director of Konfoong Biotech International based in Zhejiang Province, was busy dealing with visitors and explaining the pathological machine that could take in many blood and other samples at once and provide accurate results in minutes. “This event has helped us reach to wider audiences.”

JZ of Ningbo Sunlight Electrical Appliances had also displayed an instant coffee brewing machine that heated water in mere seconds and poured in the coffee through the use of recently manufactured semi-conductor. His team has been attending the event for the last two years. He said they have got better response ever since.

Started in 2006, the number of talents in Ningbo has reached 1.739 million. “High-end talents from overseas totalled 6,642, up 160 percent from 2011 onwards. Ninety-seven high-end groups and 295 high-end talents from overseas are included into the 3,315 Plan, and 60 and 154 talents into national and provincial Recruitment Program of Global Experts respectively,” the official statement reads.   

In its nine-year history, under the requirement of “gathering talents from home and abroad, absorbing high-tech innovative products”, the event has attracted more than 280,000 people from key universities and scientific research organizations of more than 30 countries and regions. Among them some 24,000 talents have been already brought into Ningbo.  

Liu said Ningbo provides 3H—Housing, Home and Health—for the talented individuals to help them focus more on their task while their family settles down in the city without worries.