On October 16, Party Central Committee Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister Phạm Thị Thanh Trà presented the core content of Conclusion No. 105-KL/TW from the fourth plenum of the Central Committee on attracting and employing talent in key sectors. It is the first time the Central Committee has issued a thematic conclusion on talent work, comprising six groups of tasks and solutions. The conclusion defines talent as people with outstanding qualities, abilities and creative thinking, who have breakthrough achievements and can handle important, new and complex tasks. It sets state budget allocations for talent work at about 0.1% of GDP annually, and says talent identification and recruitment from both public and private sectors will not count against public-sector headcount quotas. A new 'talent leads talent' mechanism is also proposed as part of developing national talent.
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Original headline: Phó Thủ tướng Phạm Thị Thanh Trà: Thiết lập cơ chế “nhân tài dẫn dắt nhân tài”
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