The 2021 Gusu Key Industry Urgently-needed Professional Program was recently announced after a series of procedures including declaration, preliminary examination, review, on-site examination and issuance of documents. Dr. Chia Hao Hsu, Director of Science and Innovation of magAssist, and Jialiang Zhang, Senior Mechanical Engineer of magAssist, were named to the program among many outstanding candidates and received 150,000 RMB and 90,000 RMB respectively.
The Gusu Key Industry Urgently-needed Professional Program was launched to subsidize high-end talents with bachelor's degree or above in key industrial fields in Suzhou, east China's Jiangsu province, and to address the city's shortage of urgently-needed professionals who are engaged in related work. The selected talents in the Suzhou New District are mainly distributed in the fields of high-end equipment manufacturing (35%), integrated circuits (20%), green & low-carbon technologies (16.1%), medical devices and biomedicine (13.4%), new-generation information technology (12.4%) and modern service industries (3.1%).