Chapter 3214: Eyes Like Torches

Once Baozhou City's policy to attract talent was announced, it immediately caused quite a response, because Baozhou City's policy was too tempting. For example, university graduates with a master's degree or above and under the age of thirty-five who came to Baozhou to work, as long as they passed the assessment, could be directly arranged for section-level or above positions in specific posts, and be given a housing purchase subsidy and a settlement subsidy.

This policy was very attractive to many people, because as long as they passed the assessment, they could be directly arranged for section-level cadre positions, while young people who had just started working usually had to struggle for at least five years to be promoted to section-level positions. This policy immediately saved them more than five years of time.

In addition, the Baozhou Municipal Government would also provide them with a housing purchase subsidy and a settlement subsidy. This temptation was also quite large, because there were too few young people who could afford to buy a house now. This subsidy, which varied in amount according to the level of education, basically allowed these young people who settled in Baozhou to have the ability to buy a house.

Because this subsidy could be as high as thirty to forty thousand, and the average price of commercial housing in Baozhou now didn't exceed one thousand per square meter, this subsidy was enough to buy a small house. If they wanted to buy a bigger house, they could let their family support a sum of money, or use this money to pay a down payment and apply for a loan, which was too desirable.

This subsidy might not count for much more than a decade later, and in big cities, it might not even be enough to buy one square meter of a house, but in this era, it was equivalent to a house, a home.

This policy also allowed the introduced high-educated talent to bring their family members to Baozhou together. If their family members also met the standards of high-educated talent, they could also be arranged for section-level or above positions. If they didn't meet this standard, they could also be arranged for corresponding work according to their talents. If there were children, they could also be arranged for schooling, which relieved the worries of high-educated talent.

Besides this policy, the Baozhou Municipal Government also gave certain subsidies to talent with a bachelor's degree or above who came to Baozhou to work, as well as other preferential policies, such as interest rate discounts on housing purchase loans. Those who started businesses in high-tech industries could also get an entrepreneurship loan. This entrepreneurship loan didn't need collateral, and there were also discounts on loan interest rates.

There were also many other policies that were very attractive, including policies to attract foreign talent, such as policies to attract foreign experts to work in Baozhou, providing convenience and preferential treatment in their obtaining long-term residence rights in Baozhou, settling down in Baozhou, their children's schooling, and some subsidies.

This policy was also very practical, because there were quite a few foreign talents working in Baozhou now. For example, many enterprises, including Baozhou Special Steel Plant and Ernest Automobile Manufacturing Co., Ltd., had many foreign employees, most of whom were technicians and senior management personnel, and they basically met the standards of this policy.

This policy was also very important for Baozhou University to attract foreign scholars and professors. If Baozhou wanted to further increase its soft power, it was very necessary to further strengthen education. And if it could attract some foreign experts who had made achievements in high-tech aspects, it would naturally be better.

Once these policies were issued, the Baozhou Municipal Government didn't know how many consultation calls it received every day, asking whether these policies were true, if they were true, when they would start to be implemented, and what conditions there were. Such a response made Su Xinghui quite happy.

Of course, at present, there were only many people asking, and few people really coming to sign up. This was also very normal. When a policy just started to be implemented, there were always many people watching, because no one knew what the prospects of this policy would be and whether it would be changed overnight. There had to be someone who ate the crab first. After he ate the crab and was fine, others would follow.

Su Xinghui, of course, wouldn't wait foolishly. He called Hou Wenchang and invited him to make a trip to Baozhou City.

Hou Wenchang was already a tycoon in the domestic IT industry. He was also busy with affairs every day, and he didn't know how many people wanted to see him. However, no matter how busy he was, Su Xinghui invited him to Baozhou, so he couldn't refuse. He took a plane to the capital that day and then arrived in Baozhou.

When Hou Wenchang arrived at Su Xinghui's office, Su Xinghui got up with a big laugh and said, "Wenchang, you came really fast."

Hou Wenchang did come fast. Su Xinghui called him in the morning, and he arrived in Baozhou in the afternoon. He said with a smile, "You, Mayor Su, invited me, so how dare I come slowly? If there was any good idea to make a fortune that I missed, wouldn't I regret it too late?"

Su Xinghui pointed at him and said, "You are simply falling into the money hole, thinking about making a fortune every day."

Hou Wenchang said, "Who doesn't want to make a fortune? It's mainly because your ideas are all too good, making people want not to make a fortune but find it difficult."

The ideas Su Xinghui had given Hou Wenchang were indeed very good. His ideas had kept Hou Wenchang's Hanhai Technology in a leading position in all fields of China's IT industry, and now it had almost become the leader of China's IT industry, which was more than just the two words "making a fortune" could summarize.

Yin Zhe brewed tea for Hou Wenchang and then went out of Su Xinghui's office. However, his surprise was beyond words. He still knew Hou Wenchang, because Yin Zhe himself was also a loyal user of Hanhai Net. How could he not know this tycoon in China's IT industry?

Yin Zhe didn't quite know that Hou Wenchang was so familiar with Su Xinghui, and it seemed that those wonderful ideas of Hanhai Technology were related to Su Xinghui. This made Yin Zhe have a feeling of admiration for Su Xinghui. This young leader was really a genius.

After Hou Wenchang sat down, he said to Su Xinghui, "Xinghui, those policies of yours to attract talent are simply amazing, making me a bit tempted. If I settle in Baozhou, what policy will you give me?"

Besides being announced in traditional media such as newspapers, Su Xinghui's policies were also announced in new network media such as Hanhai Net. In this way, the influence of these policies would be greater, because the influence of network media was getting bigger and bigger now, and those high-educated young talents were basically network users.

Su Xinghui said with a smile, "If you settle in Baozhou, then I will let you be this vice mayor."

Su Xinghui's words were, of course, a joke. Hou Wenchang laughed and said, "Forget it, I can't be a vice mayor yet. I thought you were going to introduce a few girls to me."

Su Xinghui said, "Don't think about this. If I introduce a few girls to you, wouldn't your wife scold me to death?"