The central government plans to work on policies meant to support the research of leading experts in China, a senior official has said.
Li Yuanchao, head of the Organization Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, said a program meant to enroll more than 10,000 researchers will soon be introduced.
Li said China is not home to enough "innovative" researchers, a lack that prevents the country from having a highly skilled workforce.
He made the remarks at the 2012 Recruitment Program of the Global Experts Taihu Lake Summit, which was held in Wuxi, Jiangsu province, from Saturday to Sunday.
The program is primarily meant to support the research of domestic experts, previous reports have said, adding that it has been approved by the central government.
The new program follows in the footsteps of the ambitious Thousand Talents Program, which was introduced by the central government in 2008 and aims to mine the talent of overseas experts, especially Chinese scholars who are working abroad.
The Thousand Talents Program is to last up to 10 years and is designed to encourage overseas experts to play a leading role in China's attempts to achieve innovation in laboratory work, high-tech industries, national programs of importance and financial institutes.
Since 2008, it has enrolled 2,793 leading scientists and professionals globally, including 846 who are in engineering and materials science, 618 in life sciences and biomedicine and 518 in information technology.
