Nantong held a promotion meeting on its development environment and talent policies at Zhongguancun Science Park, Beijing on Dec 28.

More than 120 experts and scholars from key universities and research institutes in Beijing, as well as more than 50 high-level innovative and entrepreneurial talents and representatives of well-known enterprises attended the meeting.

With the increasing saturation of various resource elements in large centers such as Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, cities in metropolitan areas, such as Nantong, are attracting more and more talents, according to some academicians who attended the meeting.

Nantong holds a promotion meeting on its development environment and talent policies at Zhongguancun Science Park, Beijing on Dec 28. [Photo/Ntjoy]

As one of the most innovative and dynamic cities in China, Nantong has six major advantages, namely strategic overlay, transportation and location, industrial base, platforms and carriers, cultural environment and policy guarantees, said the principal of the organization department of the Nantong municipal Party committee and the municipal talent office.

Representatives of the School of Physics, Peking University and the Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems of the Chinese Academy of Sciences also made statements at the meeting.