On July 10, 2021 (13th) Venture Week for International Elites in Suzhou and the 
2nd Suzhou Scientists Day opened at Suzhou International Expo Center. This 
year's Venture Week attracted 78 academicians to attend the event, more than 
3,000 talented guests participated in the event, and a total of 3139 projects 
participated in the docking, according to the Organizing Committee of the 
Venture Week.

Venture Week is a major talent recruitment activity that Suzhou focuses on. It 
has been held annually since 2009. A total of 7,287 projects have been 
introduced and settled in the last twelve sessions. The Venture Week was 
carried out in the form of a combination of online and offline. The main event 
will continue until July 12, and the public platform has collected a total of 
2,204 innovative and entrepreneurial projects to participate in the docking.

At the opening ceremony, the "Suzhou New Talent Policy" was released, and four 
new talent policies were launched, including the "Fifteen Articles of Suzhou 
Talent System Reform" and "Measures to further encourage and support overseas 
Chinese students to innovate and start business in Suzhou". 57 major innovation 
projects were signed, focusing on strategic emerging industries, with 
investment of over 12 billion yuan. At the scene, three academicians Shen 
Xuechu, Tang Shuxian, and Xu Hongxing were hired as members of the Strategic 
Advisory Committee of the Gusu Laboratory of Materials Science.

The National 3rd-generation Semiconductor Technology Innovation Center, which 
settled in Suzhou, announced the global talent recruitment and unveiling 
project, with 300 million yuan in talent pool and 50 billion yuan in project 
plans to attract talents from all over the world to participate in scientific 
research.

To speed up the pace of "Integration of Shanghai-Suzhou" and deepen the 
exchange and cooperation of talents between Shanghai and Suzhou, at the opening 
ceremony, the Plan of Shanghai-Suzhou Science and Technology Resources Sharing 
and Promotion was launched. Companies from Shanghai and the Suzhou also jointly 
released a new batch of 459 technical requirements, with an amount of more than 
1.5 billion yuan on the list.

Source: The Organizing Committee of Suzhou Venture Week for International Elites

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