The Quzhou City New 115 Talents Project is a talent training program that gathers academic and technical leaders in various key fields in Quzhou, in East China's Zhejiang province.

Since its implementation in 1998, a total of eight groups of talent have been selected and trained involving over 2,000 people.

The project involves recruiting competent personnel - including talent brought in from outside Quzhou who have been working full-time in the city for more than one year and have made outstanding achievements.

Here are six key areas where the city needs talent:

1. Big data, artificial intelligence, the internet of things and other new generations of information technology, robotics, integrated circuits and the high-end software industry, e-commerce (platform, sales) and other digital economy intelligent industry technical skills.

2. Technical and skilled talent in the fields of environmental tourism, publicity and culture, rural revitalization, health care for the aged, lifestyle and sports and leisure.

3. Technical skills in new materials, new energy, intelligent manufacturing, life and health and special paper.

4. Innovative talent with outstanding performances in the implementation of important decisions and the arrangements of the municipal Party committee and government and the completion of major special work, as well as front-line talent who have made outstanding contributions in the fight against the novel coronavirus epidemic.

5. Team researchers who have implemented technology research and development and made important achievements in academician workstations, postdoctoral research workstations, expert workstations, key innovation teams, doctors' workstations and other platforms at the municipal level or above.

6. Team researchers who have played an important role in key areas of endeavor and bodies such as the Quzhou Research Institute of Zhejiang University and the Southeast Digital Economy Development Research Institute.