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original title: "2024 world talent ranking" hong kong rises to ninth place

a spokesperson for the hong kong special administrative region government said on the 19th that the international institute for management development in lausanne, switzerland released the "2024 world talent ranking" (hereinafter referred to as the "ranking") on the 19th. hong kong has risen sharply from the 16th place in 2023 to the 9th place, which is the first time it has returned to the top ten since 2016.

hong kong has made progress in all three talent competitiveness factors of the ranking: readiness has climbed from sixth to fourth; investment and development has risen from fifteenth to thirteenth; and attractiveness has improved from thirty-second to twenty-eighth. in terms of various indicators, hong kong ranks first in the world in the percentage of science graduates, and ranks in the top five in the world in financial skills, management education effectiveness, and management compensation.

a spokesman for the sar government said that hong kong ranked among the top ten in the world in the "ranking" released by the international institute for management development, which proves that the sar government's work in education and talent introduction has been effective. hong kong has good educational infrastructure, internationally renowned universities and excellent scientific research talents, and its teaching quality ranks among the best in many international comparative studies. in the 2022 policy address, the sar government announced a series of immigration measures to attract and facilitate talents from all over the world to come to hong kong for development, including the launch of the "high-end talent pass scheme" specifically to attract high-income people and graduates from the world's top universities, as well as the optimization of other immigration schemes to attract outstanding foreign talents and enrich the local talent pool. as of the end of august this year, various talent importation schemes have received more than 360,000 applications, of which nearly 230,000 were approved. during the same period, more than 150,000 talents arrived in hong kong through various talent entry schemes. these outstanding foreign talents and their families have enriched hong kong's labor force and injected new impetus into the local economy. (feng xuezhi)

(people's daily overseas edition)