BEIJING-- China should become more welcoming for overseas talent and and draw fully on their expertise, Zhang Jianguo, vice minister of human resources and social security said.We should create a better system for international talent to work in China, including assessment and incentive measures, he was quoted as saying by Study Times, a weekly newspaper affiliated to the Party School of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee.Zhang called for the country to be more welcoming towards scientific and technological talent who are capable of making major innovations and promoting technological reform, as well as entrepreneurs and people from all walks of life who have a global and strategic vision.He also recommended giving foreign talent greater say in decision-making in the development of a technology, and allowing them to take part in fund allocation and resource mobilization.A report delivered at the 19th National Congress of the CPC in October 2017 said that talent is a strategic resource for China as it endeavors to achieve national rejuvenation and stay ahead of international competition.We must follow the principle of the Party exercising leadership over personnel, assemble the best minds from across the world and draw fully on their expertise, and step up efforts to make China a talent-strong country, the report said. debossed-wristbandprinted-wristbandwristbands for eventsrubber band bracelets
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe answers questions during a budget committee session of the upper house in Tokyo last week. KAZUHIRO NOGI / AGENCE FRANCEPRESSE Abe hits back as support dives TOKYO - Japan's embattled prime minister hit back on Monday at critics over a favoritism and cover-up scandal that has seen his popularity plunge and loosened his iron grip on power. In a hotly awaited statement in parliament, Shinzo Abe stressed he had not ordered bureaucrats to alter documents relating to a controversial land sale as he comes under mounting pressure over the scandal. I did not direct that the documents be altered, he said. In fact, I didn't even know that they existed at all, so how could I have done that? The scandal surrounds the 2016 sale of state-owned land to a nationalist operator of schools who claims ties to Abe and his wife Akie. The sale was clinched at a price well below market value amid allegations that the high-level connections helped grease the deal. Versions of the original and doctored documents made public by opposition lawmakers appeared to show passing references to Abe were scrubbed, along with several references to his wife Akie and Finance Minister Taro Aso. Aso has blamed the alterations on some staff members at the ministry. But Jiro Yamaguchi, a politics professor at Hosei University in Tokyo, said the public was not at all convinced by this explanation. Why was the land sold at a discount price? Without any political pressure, this could never happen, and voters are angry about it, said Yamaguchi. The prime minister repeated an apology, saying he keenly felt his responsibility over the scandal that has shaken people's confidence in government administration. The affair is hitting Abe's ratings hard, with a new poll in the Asahi Shimbun showing public support nose-diving by 13 percentage points from the previous month to 31 percent. The figure is the lowest approval rating for Abe in the poll since his return to power at the end of 2012. AFP - Reuters
