Time: Mar. 23, 2018
Source: Office of International Exchange and Cooperation
Author & Published: News Center

The Population Mobility and Labor Economics Innovation Talent Introduction Base, led by Prof. Feng Shuaizhang, dean of JNU's Institute for Economic and Social Research, has been included in the 2018 Discipline Innovation and Talent Introduction Program for College and Universities --  "111 Plan" for short. It is JNU's first program in the liberal arts to be selected for “111 Plan” and its fourth foreign talent introduction program at the national level. The announcement was made by the Ministry of Education (MoE) and the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs (SAFEA).

Based on applied economics, a prominent discipline at JNU, the base gathers economics experts including Prof. James Joseph Heckman, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and experts from the University of Chicago, Yale University, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Australian National University, the University of Bonn, the University of Toronto and JNU as its academic core. It centers on the idea of the Communist Party of China’s 19th National Congress: "Creating networks of cities and towns based on city clusters, enabling the coordinated development of cities of different sizes and small towns, and speeding up work on granting permanent urban residency to people who move from rural to urban areas." It will focus on three major national demands: population mobility, labor market and cultivation of human capital. The base will conduct international collaborative research to develop itself into a comprehensive base for innovation talent introduction, similar to a think tank, facing key areas of national development, combining the arts and science, and aiming to solve problems.

The “111 Plan” is a talent introduction project initiated by the MoE and SAFEA to build high-level research universities