China to reform management of talents ( 2004-01-01 09:11) (Xinhua)
China will reform its management of skilled and
professional people by forming a new assessment system and a market-oriented
employment mechanism, according to a joint decision of the Central Committee of
the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the State Council.
Professionals will be judged in line with their abilities and achievements,
instead of the existing system which focuses on education and career experience,
says the decision, which calls for further improvements to the management of
talented people.
The assessment should be based on achievements as well as moral bearing,
knowledge and abilities, it stresses. All the existing methods of evaluating
professionals should be modernized and the assessment should be approved by
colleagues, so as to make it more rational and democratic, according to the
decision.
However, it adds, the assessment of enterprises' managerial personnel has to
be approved by the market and the investors. Managers should be assessed in
accordance with the financial results of the enterprise, while bringing
non-financial factors into consideration, it says.
The decision calls for a personnel system to select talented people in an
open, equal and competitive way in order to find improve staff levels. An
"expressway" should be opened for young talent, it stresses.
People should find their position through competition, the decision says.
Meanwhile, it calls for establishing and improving the labor market for
talented people, helping them to change their jobs in a more rational manner.
Employers and employees should be more independent in the labor market in
accordance with market law, it says.
It urged local governments to further abolish all restrictions on the
movement of skilled people and establish new systems on the management of
professionals. It calls for protecting commercial and state secrets when
allowing talented people to change jobs, while protecting the rights of
employers and employees.
Effective mechanism should be set up to encourage and protect talented people
to enable them to do a better and creative job. Under a new distribution system,
these people should be paid according to their contributions, with regards to
efficiency and fairness.
It calls for improving the country's public service system, pay public
servants in accordance with their positions, abilities, achievements and annual
assessments. The gap between different positions could be enlarged to encourage
better performance and hope for promotion. Special subsidies will be paid to
those with special abilities.
As China's state-owned companies are adopting a modern corporate system, they
should each decide their own staff payment levels in accordance with market law,
the decision says.
It calls for regularizing the recognition of talented people. Anational award
system should be set up to honor those who have made special contributions to
the state, it adds.
Further, it calls for improvements to the security system for skills. While
further improving the social security system, special means should be adopted to
protect the welfare of talented people, by setting up a state insurance system
for these people.