On December 19th, the "2025 China Annual Best Employer Awards Ceremony" announced a series of rankings. Xiamen has been awarded the "China Annual Best Talent Attraction City" for five consecutive years, while China Construction and Development Group, Xiangyu Group, ANTA Group, and others have been shortlisted for the "China Annual Best Employer TOP100" list. Xiamen Airlines has also been shortlisted for the "China Annual Most Promising Employer" list for the first time.
As one of the authoritative guides and indicators in the field of human resources in China, the annual Best Employer selection activity has always been highly regarded.
Xiamen has always maintained an open attitude and opened up new avenues to gather talents from all over the world. Since the beginning of this year, it has successively been awarded titles such as "the most attractive Chinese city in the eyes of foreign talents", "talent friendly city", and "employment friendly city".
Focusing on building a new development pattern node city, Xiamen has deeply implemented the "Lu Yin Wu Zhou" global talent attraction action, with an average annual growth rate of over 15% for newly introduced international talents; Hosting events such as the "Lu Yin Wu Zhou Cai Ju Ba Min" 2025 Global Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition and the "Su Song Cup", attracting over 2000 projects from around the world to participate, and the "Double Hundred Plan" Taiwan Talent Track attracting 47 project registrations; We will also strengthen the linkage with the Beijing Tianjin Hebei region, actively integrate into the development of the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area, establish international talent workstations stationed in Beijing and the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area, and actively link talents and scientific and technological innovation resources.
Talents are the hard core support for industrial upgrading. Xiamen is deeply implementing the Science and Technology Innovation Leading Project and upgrading the "Qunlu Xingxia" talent policy system to version 3.0; Publish "8 AI Industry Talents" and take the lead in incorporating "code citation volume" and other aspects into the city's high-level talent recognition standards; The R&D investment intensity of the whole society has increased to 3.46%, and 213 national specialized, refined, unique and new "little giant" enterprises have been cultivated; A group of innovative talents have emerged, breaking the market monopoly of foreign products for more than ten years with the first domestically produced and the second globally produced nine valent cervical cancer vaccine. Two new drugs, including Yipei Growth Hormone, have filled the domestic gap.
Warm hearted service is the solid foundation for Xiamen to retain talents. Xiamen is committed to building a cross island talent service network, with 18 talent service stations established to achieve full coverage within the city; Set up talent apartments in off island parks such as biopharmaceutical ports and subway TOD commercial districts, and expand the free "one bed" for talents to Jimei and Haicang; Improve the cross island full chain incubation service system, establish a national regional technology transfer and transformation center for universities, and the Xiamen Science City Innovation "Engine" has attracted over 2500 innovative and entrepreneurial entities to settle in; The urban area jointly held nearly a hundred themed activities for the "2025 Xiamen Talent Service Month".
Innovation in institutional mechanisms is the key password to activate talent vitality. Xiamen has taken the lead in establishing the Municipal Party Committee Education and Technology Talent Work Leading Group in the province, optimizing mechanisms such as independent recognition, exemption from application, and cross city mutual recognition for high-level talents, upgrading flexible talent introduction support measures, innovating the establishment of a "talent turnover pool", supporting key enterprises and new research and development institutions to introduce urgently needed and scarce talents, establishing a "double cross double employment" system, and promoting the joint introduction and sharing of high-level talents between schools and enterprises; We are the first in the province to carry out the certification of 12 new vocational skill levels, including artificial intelligence trainers, and support nearly 3000 enterprises to carry out the "one test, two certificates" certification.
