Localization of employees has become a trend in
multinationals
Chinese enterprises should be fully aware of the challenge of
losing talented people to foreign-funded companies now that China
is a member of the World Trade
Organization (WTO), said a deputy to the National People's
Congress (NPC).
Many multinational companies have entered China and more will come,
and they will inevitably contend for qualified personnel with
Chinese enterprises, said Gao Tongsheng, who has long been engaged
in study of human resources.
Many talented people in China used to be attracted to the developed
countries in the 1980s and 1990s, when more than 90 percent of the
staff of multinationals' China subsidiaries were sent from
overseas. Now more and more Chinese professionals are working for
multinationals in the country, and they are expected to account for
more than 90 percent of the employees of foreign- funded firms, Gao
said.
"The localization of employees has become a trend in
multinationals," the researcher said.
Different from the traditional way of recruiting people, an
increasing number of foreign companies are looking for
professionals through the Internet.
Multinationals are going all out after Chinese professionals in
science, technology and business management, who are also badly
needed in Chinese enterprises. Big companies such as Intel and
Microsoft have established more than 100 research and development
centers in China, employing Chinese professionals.
Noting that capacity building has become the key in the current new
round of wealth accumulation, NPC deputies agree that it is an
urgent job to prevent brain drain, absorb more talented people and
provide conditions for them to display their abilities.
To develope human resources and improve professional
skills
At
the same time, said NPC deputy Niu Wenyuan, efforts must be made to
vigorously develop human resources and improve the professional
skills of China's labor force in an all-round manner so as to
provide a strong support to the country's reform and modernization
drive.
It
is learned that departments concerned in Beijing
and Shanghai
have adopted certain measures and the Ministry of Personnel is
drafting related laws and regulations aimed at pool more skilled
and professional people to work for Chinese companies.
(People's
Daily March 11, 2002)