Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

Rich but not skilled, China's integrated circuit industry is still short of "masters".

In recent years, China has attached more and more importance to the discipline construction of integrated circuits. in December 2020, after being demonstrated by experts and approved by the academic degree Committee of the State Council, it was decided to set up first-level disciplines such as "cross-discipline" and "integrated circuit science and engineering".

The promotion of discipline construction is conducive to the formation of a more comprehensive and stable team of professional teachers, and is conducive to the state's "earmarked funds" for integrated circuit personnel training and research. it is conducive to the training of high-quality integrated circuit professionals for the industry.

In this scenario, core research, the world's leading semiconductor industry think tank, and Arm China jointly investigated and wrote the report "Chinese mainland Integrated Circuit Design Talent demand report 2022", which aims to provide the industry with multi-angle reference on talent issues in the field of integrated circuit design, including the overall quality, treatment, demand and training of talents. Hope to provide effective reference for the balanced development of industrial talents.

01. The proportion of China's integrated circuit design industry is increasing year by year, and the demand for talents is more prominent. In 2021, the sales revenue of China's integrated circuit industry reached 1.04583 trillion yuan, an increase of 18.2 percent over the same period last year, three times the growth rate of the global industry in the same period. The output of integrated circuits reached 359.4 billion, an increase of 33.3% over the same period last year.

China's integrated circuit industry has made continuous breakthroughs in technological innovation. At present, the development trend in the fields of manufacturing technology, packaging technology, key equipment and materials is improving, and the strength of enterprises is steadily improving. With the introduction of a series of policies, the industry has entered a golden period of rapid growth, business improvement, product breakthroughs and environmental optimization, and a number of new leading enterprises have emerged in the design, manufacturing, closed testing and other industrial links.

▲ 2014-2021 China's output of integrated circuits

▲ 2014-2021 China's integrated circuit industry sales scale in terms of the industrial chain structure, the sales scale of the integrated circuit design industry in 2021 was 451.9 billion yuan, an increase of 19.6% over the same period last year, accounting for 43.2% of the industrial chain; the sales scale of the wafer manufacturing industry was 317.63 billion yuan, an increase of 24.1% over the same period last year, accounting for 30.4% of the industrial chain The sales scale of the packaging and testing industry was 276.3 billion yuan, an increase of 10.1% over the same period last year, accounting for 26.4% of the industry chain.

The proportion of each link of integrated circuit industry chain in ▲ 2021 IC design is the link with the highest knowledge intensity and the largest proportion of the industrial chain in the integrated circuit industry. With the release of the "outline for the Development and Promotion of the National Integrated Circuit Industry" and the promulgation of a series of other encouraging policies, the integrated circuit design industry has become the most competitive field in China's integrated circuit industry.

Since 2015, local governments have taken various preferential measures to attract mature domestic design companies to set up branches in different places. The proportion of integrated circuit design industry chain is increasing year by year, and the demand for talents is more prominent.

▲ 2015-2021 changes in sales of all links of Chinese mainland semiconductor industry chain from the number of design enterprises, the number of domestic chip design enterprises reached 2810 in 2021, 592 more than 2218 in 2020, with an increase of 26.7%.

In addition to the gathering places of traditional design enterprises such as Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, there are more than 100 design enterprises in Wuxi, Hangzhou, Xi'an, Chengdu, Nanjing, Wuhan, Suzhou, Hefei, Xiamen, Zhuhai and other cities.

In addition to the continuous increase in the number of design enterprises, the scale of enterprises is also gradually growing. In 2021, the number of design enterprises with more than 1000 people reached 32, an increase of 3 over the previous year; the number of enterprises with 500-1000 people reached 51, an increase of 9 over the previous year; and the number of enterprises with a staff scale of 100-1000 reached 376, an increase of 91 over the previous year.

▲ 2015-2021 the number and growth rate of integrated circuit design enterprises in China from 2020 to 2021, according to the sales ranking of China's top ten design enterprises, Ziguang Zhanrui, Weir shares and Anshi Semiconductor increased significantly, ranking among the top three, followed by Gekewei, Zhaoyi Innovation, Huiding Technology and other companies.

In terms of talents in the top ten integrated circuit design enterprises of ▲ 2020-2021 Chinese mainland, generally speaking, there are a large number of employees directly engaged in the integrated circuit industry in China. Affected by the policy and economic environment, the growth rate of employees increases, the overall talent market is stable, the active turnover rate shows a downward trend, and the salary of the industry continues to rise.

The employment proportion of graduates of this major is increasing, and the proportion of graduates of related majors switching to the integrated circuit industry is also increasing, which alleviates the shortage of the number of employees in China's integrated circuit industry to a certain extent. However, the demand for talents in the industry is still huge, and it is estimated that by 2023, the demand for talents in the industry will reach 780000, of which the demand for employees in the design industry will be about 320000.

At the same time, there are a series of problems in China's integrated circuit industry, such as "attracting talents", "cultivating talents", "retaining talents" and so on, which restrict the high-quality development of China's integrated circuit industry to a great extent.

There is a huge personnel gap in China's integrated circuit industry, and it involves all aspects of the industrial chain, especially basic skills and industry leaders. The phenomenon of poaching among enterprises is common, which leads to frequent talent flow, mainly concentrated in R & D, key technology, senior management and other positions. In terms of talent training, there is a lack of support for talent training teachers and practical training conditions, and the integration of industry and education needs to be strengthened. In addition, China's incentive system is not perfect, the degree of attention to intellectual capital is not enough, resulting in the lack of vitality of researchers.

In 02.2022 years, the number of integrated circuit employees will reach 630000. In the past three years, under the good policy environment and financial environment, the domestic integrated circuit industry has developed rapidly, and the demand for talents is also relatively strong. The demand for employees in China's integrated circuit industry has maintained a trend of rapid growth.

In 2020, the number of employees in China's integrated circuit industry reached 541000, an increase of 5.7% over the same period last year. Since 2020, affected by the COVID-19 epidemic, the willingness of workers to change jobs has weakened.

In 2022, wages in the industry continue to rise, the domestic integrated circuit employment environment continues to improve and improve, the industry turnover rate shows a downward trend, the recruitment rate of enterprises has increased, and the active turnover rate has dropped significantly compared with the same period last year. At the same time, computer software, communications and other related industries have transported certain talents for the industry, which has alleviated the pressure of talent gap to a certain extent. The number of employees in the integrated circuit industry is expected to reach 630000 in 2022.

From the analysis of the talent structure of the existing employees, in addition to the lack of high-end talents, especially leading talents, there is a shortage of basic skilled talents, compound talents, international innovative talents and applied talents in China's integrated circuit industry.

In all links of the industrial chain, the scale of integrated circuit design industry is the largest. In 2021, the number of employees in China's integrated circuit design industry reached 221000, an increase of 10.72 percent over the same period last year, the per capita output value reached 2.076 million yuan, and the per capita labor productivity increased significantly over the previous year.

▲ 2018-2020 in the direction of chip design and application, consumer electronics chips account for 34.1% of the total market share, which is the largest market share, followed by communications, multimedia, computing and automotive industry chips, accounting for 18.50%, 14.00%, 13.60% and 5.5%, respectively.

▲ Chinese mainland Integrated Circuit Design Industry Segmentation Market sales Distribution from the existing talent position distribution in China's integrated circuit industry, as the front end of the integrated circuit industry chain, the highest proportion of technical R & D positions is 62.35%, most of which are employees with bachelor's degree or above.

The position Distribution of existing employees in ▲ Integrated Circuit Design IC is a knowledge-intensive industry, which requires higher academic qualifications for employees, especially in the integrated circuit design industry. Therefore, the educational level of employees in the integrated circuit design industry is also the highest in all links of the industrial chain.

Generally speaking, the existing employees in China's integrated circuit design industry are younger and more educated. Bachelor's degree or above accounted for 89.74%, master's degree or above accounted for 43.24%.

From the perspective of age structure, most of the existing employees in ▲ integrated circuit design industry are concentrated in the range of 26-35 years old, and the proportion of employees under 25 years old is increasing, and the whole is relatively young.

Age distribution of existing employees in ▲ integrated circuit design due to the continuous improvement of the employment environment in China's integrated circuit industry, coupled with rising salaries and other factors, the industry's active turnover rate dropped to 11.42% in 2020, down 1.09% from the previous year, but still higher than the healthy turnover rate of 5%. 10%. Affected by the explosive growth of chip enterprises, soaring demand for employees, and high salary poaching in the industry, it is estimated that the active turnover rate of the integrated circuit design industry in 2021 is basically the same as that in 2019.

The voluntary turnover rate of employees in the integrated circuit design industry in ▲ from 2018 to 2020 according to the survey data, 37.1% of the practitioners are waiting to change jobs in 2021, and more than 60% of the employees choose not to change jobs. Among the people who choose to change jobs, 95% of the practitioners choose to continue to develop in the semiconductor industry, while 5% choose to transfer to other industries because of their personal studies and other reasons.

Through the research, it is found that the integrated circuit design practitioners mainly focus on the following points: salary return, incentive mechanism, workload, industry impact and workplace and environment. In the survey sample, 58.50% of the practitioners chose to focus on compensation returns. 41.2% of the respondents chose to focus on incentives, 33.1% of the respondents focused on the workload, 19.90% focused on the influence of their industry, and 15.70% considered the location and environment of work.

▲ IC design industry employees' job-hunting intention focuses on the high-speed growth of China's IC industry in 2021 under the good domestic policy environment and financing environment. As of June 30, 2022, there are 53 listed companies on Kechuang Board in 2022, of which 19 are semiconductor industry chain enterprises, including 2 material companies, 2 equipment companies and 15 design companies. The rapid development of China's integrated circuit industry has given birth to a relatively strong demand for talents, especially in the chip design industry.

▲ Science and Technology Innovation Board has listed integrated circuit design enterprises the overall salary of China's semiconductor industry continues to grow, the salary of the design industry is the highest, and the increase of R & D jobs is the most prominent. In terms of talent demand, the demand and supply of personnel in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen are relatively high, among which Beijing enterprises require higher academic qualifications for talents, and practitioners are required to have a master's degree or above.

The demand for employees in China's integrated circuit industry remains unchanged in the top ten cities from 2020 to 2021. Beijing, Shenzhen and Shanghai are in the top three, followed by Shanghai, Chengdu and Xi'an. Other cities with strong demand for talents are concentrated in second-tier cities.

In recent years, with the rapid development of chip design industry, chip design positions occupy the hottest track for job seekers in the whole integrated circuit industry, including analog chip design, digital front-end, digital verification, analog layout design, digital back-end, RF chip design, chip architecture, chip function verification, CAD and design for testability (DFT).

With the development of new industries such as 5G and artificial intelligence, jobs in ▲ integrated circuit design industry are emerging rapidly and the increment is larger than the existing talent supply. With the rapid development of local integrated circuit design enterprises, there is a greater demand for talents. Among the top 10 job shortages, the top five chip design jobs are analog chip design, digital front-end, digital verification, digital back-end and analog layout design, which also continued the shortage in 2021.

The shortage of high-end talents in ▲ integrated circuit design industry TOP 10 plays an important role in realizing the great-leap-forward development of China's integrated circuit industry. Judging from the existing talent structure in China, there is still a shortage of experienced professionals, especially the key technical personnel and high-end management talents who master the core technology. the introduction of international talents and teams from abroad is a more rapid and effective way to promote industrial upgrading.

Due to the dual influence of the increasing uncertainty of Sino-US economic and trade frictions and the normalization of the COVID-19 epidemic, the number and proportion of talents that 2021 integrated circuit enterprises plan to introduce from abroad are significantly lower than those in 2020, and are expected to be basically the same in 2022 and 2021.

In recent years, although China's integrated circuit industry has increased the introduction of leading talents and high-end talents, the effect is not significant, mainly due to the lack of competitiveness in attracting and retaining talents.

According to the 2020IMD World Talent report released by the Lobsang School of Management (IMD) in Switzerland, Chinese mainland ranked 40th in terms of global talent investment and development, ability to attract and retain talent, and talent reserve, up two places from last year, but still in the middle and lower reaches of 63 countries and regions. Among them, the competitiveness of attracting and retaining talents is also far lower than that of the United States, the Netherlands, Germany, Hong Kong, China, Britain, Singapore, France, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and other countries and regions with mature integrated circuit industry.

03. Analysis of talent supply: although trade frictions, the continuing impact of COVID-19 's epidemic situation and the pressure on the overall job market have had an impact on the prosperity of the integrated circuit industry, under the background of accelerated domestic substitution in the integrated circuit industry, the whole society has significantly increased its attention to the integrated circuit industry, and the policy and financial environment are favorable. The prosperity of China's integrated circuit industry continues to be better than the average. At the same time, computer software and communications provide certain talents for the industry, alleviating the pressure of insufficient supply of talents to a certain extent.

Compared with the whole industry, the talent supply and demand performance of the integrated circuit industry is better. The recruitment demand in the first quarter of 2021 still maintained a year-on-year growth rate of 27.50%, and the year-on-year growth rate continued to expand in the second quarter. The jobs with a large year-on-year increase in recruitment demand are mainly front-line production workers and logistics personnel, and the number of job seekers has also maintained a year-on-year growth. The top two cities with the highest activity for job seekers are Beijing and Shanghai.

For a long time, the integrated circuit industry, especially graduates, is also facing the situation of brain drain. The low average salary in the industry and the limited employment prospects have become the important reasons for the brain drain of integrated circuit related professionals. Graduates majoring in integrated circuit design can also enter the Internet, finance and other fields. due to the different heat of the market, the high salaries and broad prospects of these employment directions are more attractive to graduates.

With the national attention to the integrated circuit industry and the attention of the whole society, as well as the practical improvement of welfare benefits, the number of exemplary graduates maintained growth from 2016 to 2021, and the number of people entering the industry also maintained a growing trend.

As a high-tech industry, integrated circuits require employees to have a certain educational background and knowledge reserve.

Judging from the academic structure of the talent supply side from 2020 to 2021, the academic qualifications of talents at the supply side of the integrated circuit industry are mainly concentrated at the undergraduate level, accounting for 59.27% of the total talent supply, an increase of 6.97% over the same period in 2018-2019. The proportion of college and master's degree and above are 26.46% and 0.89% respectively. On the other hand, there are relatively few people with college degree or below in this industry, accounting for 3.38% of the total talent supply.

On the whole, the distribution of academic qualifications between the demand and supply of talents in China's integrated circuit industry is basically the same.

The distribution of academic qualifications of talents in the ▲ integrated circuit design industry from the perspective of academic qualifications, the distribution of academic qualifications of job seekers has remained consistent in the past three years, with bachelor's degree or above accounting for 80%. In terms of age, the most active age level is under 35, accounting for about 84% of the total number of job seekers, with the highest proportion of job seekers aged between 26 and 30, accounting for about 35%.

Age distribution of ▲ integrated circuit design professionals in campus recruitment, fresh graduates are a fresh force in the supply of integrated circuit talents, accounting for 14% of the total; in terms of social recruitment, job seekers with 1-3 years, 5-7 years and more than 10 years of work experience are more active, while those with 1 year work experience are relatively few.

Integrated circuit is a cross-discipline that integrates more than 40 science and technology and engineering fields. Judging from the professional situation of job seekers in the integrated circuit industry from 2020 to 2021, computer science and technology majors had the highest job seekers, accounting for 12.75% of the total talent supply, followed by electronic information engineering and mechanical design, manufacturing and automation, accounting for 5.91% and 5.72%, respectively.

At the same time, Chinese colleges and universities have trained a large number of graduates majoring in electronics, computer and automation, and some of them have entered the integrated circuit industry to provide effective supplies for professionals related to integrated circuits.

▲ 2020-2021 college graduates of ten hot majors in integrated circuit industry are valuable human resources in our country. From the point of view of the professional setting of colleges and universities in our country, many disciplines and specialties are related to the integrated circuit design industry. From the incomplete statistical analysis of the number of IC-related majors offered in the main provinces and cities in China, we can see that the layout of IC-related specialties from specialist to doctor in Jiangsu Province is obviously better than that in other regions. This is followed by Hubei Province, Guangdong Province, Shaanxi Province and Shandong Province.

According to the data of the Ministry of Education, there are 8.7 million college graduates in China in 2020, according to the number of integrated circuit related majors (disciplines) offered by ▲ Chinese mainland provinces and cities. According to incomplete statistics, the scale of graduates related to integrated circuits is about 210000, accounting for about 2.30% of the total number of graduates, of which master's degree and above account for 6.03%, undergraduates account for 69.35%, and college students and below account for about 24.62%.

Employment situation of ▲ 2020 graduates of IC related majors according to the survey data, 27500 graduates of IC related majors entered the industry in 2020, that is, 13.77% of IC related graduates chose to work in this industry, an increase of 0.85% over 2019. For graduates who do not work in integrated circuit related industries, 26.53% of graduates work in Internet, computer, communications, IT and other fields, while the rest account for 59.70%.

Generally speaking, there is still a serious brain drain in the integrated circuit profession, which may be related to the lack of matching of professional knowledge, the lack of industrial salary attractiveness, the limitation of career prospects and so on.

The undergraduate majors related to integrated circuit design belong to wide-caliber majors with a wide range of choices in terms of employment. Compared with other industries, there are many factors, such as rapid updating of integrated circuit knowledge, high work pressure, and insignificant attractiveness of enterprises. As a result, a large number of undergraduates flow to other industries.

The issue of salary and treatment can be said to be one of the important factors affecting the employment choice of all talents, and the integrated circuit industry is no exception. In this report, 160 subjects were randomly selected from dozens of integrated circuit design enterprises, including 16 with college degree or below, 70 with bachelor's degree, 69 with master's degree and 5 with doctor's degree or above. The random sample structure is also roughly in line with the current talent composition of the integrated circuit design industry, that is, the number of undergraduate and master's degrees accounts for more than 80% of the total employees.

The following is the current salary and treatment situation of China's integrated circuit design industry reflected by the survey.

Of the 160 survey responses collected, 57 had an annual salary of less than 200000. The proportion of the total number of samples is 35.6%; there are 60 people whose annual salary is between 200000 and 400000, and the proportion of the total number of samples is 37.5%; there are 21 people with annual salary between 400000 and 600000, accounting for 13.1% of the total number of samples; 9 people with annual salary between 600000 and 800000, the proportion of samples is 5.6%; there are 5 people with annual salary between 800000 and 1 million, and the total ratio of samples is 3.1%. There are 8 people with an annual salary of more than 1 million, and the total number of samples accounts for 5%.

From the above sample data, we can roughly see the average salary of China's integrated circuit design industry.

▲ the average salary of China's integrated circuit design industry is also reflected in the salary and treatment of Chinese integrated circuit design enterprises by position among the 160survey feedback collected. In this sample, the number of R & D positions is 89, manufacturing posts is 13, marketing and sales and customer support positions are 24, general posts (finance, personnel administration, etc.) are 9, management positions are 2, and other positions are 23. The distribution of salaries and benefits by position is as follows:

▲ in China's integrated circuit design industry, among the R & D jobs, there are 26 people with an annual salary below 200000, 34 with an annual salary of 200000 ~ 400000, 14 with an annual salary of 400000 ~ 600000, 7 with an annual salary of 600000 ~ 800000, 1 with 800000 7 million, and 7 with an annual salary of over 1 million. Among the manufacturing jobs, the salaries are 3, 5, 3, 1, 1 and 0 respectively. In marketing and customer support positions, there are 5, 13, 3, 0, 2 and 1; in general positions, 3, 4, 0, 1, 1 and 0; in management positions, there are only 2 people in the range of 200,000 to 400,000; in other positions, there are 20, 2, 1, 0 and 0.

As can be seen from the above data, in the design industry, only the salary range of people engaged in R & D positions has achieved full coverage between sample elections. this also means that the salary of R & D jobs will be affected by more factors such as working time, project experience and skill proficiency.

When recruiting R & D employees, integrated circuit design companies should offer flexible salary terms according to the actual situation of the candidates, and should not fix the salary in a certain range, so as not to miss the right talents.

04. Four major industrial agglomeration areas, talent distribution and introduction policies there are four major integrated circuit industry agglomeration areas in China: the Yangtze River Delta, the coastal areas of South China, the Bohai Sea area around Beijing and Tianjin, and the central and western regions.

In 2021, Shanghai, Beijing and Shenzhen continue to dominate the top three in the ranking of city sales scale of the design industry. Hangzhou, Wuxi and Nanjing followed, with the sales of the design industry all exceeding 30 billion yuan, and the industrial scale of Xi'an, Chengdu, Wuhan and Zhuhai all exceeding 10 billion yuan, making it into the top 10. The total output value of the design industry in these ten cities reached 432.69 billion yuan, accounting for 94.3 percent of the whole industry, but 2.5 percentage points lower than the 96.8 percent in 2020.

In terms of growth, the ten cities with the highest growth rates of domestic design industry are Jinan (193.9%), Tianjin (120.0%), Nanjing (107.0%), Guangzhou (99.6%), Wuxi (98.1%), Hefei (86.9%), Fuzhou (76.4%), Hangzhou (72.5%), Beijing (69.8%) and Chengdu (66.0%).

Among the 2810 design enterprises across the country, enterprises with an annual sales income of more than 50 million yuan are concentrated in the Yangtze River Delta.

Shanghai, located in the Yangtze River Delta region, is the leading city in the national integrated circuit industry. In 2021, the scale of the integrated circuit industry reached 250 billion yuan, an increase of 20 percent over the same period last year, ranking first in the country, accounting for about 1/4 of the country's total output value. The scale of the integrated circuit industry in Jiangsu Province exceeded 200 billion yuan in 2020, especially in the field of chip design, with a growth rate of 30%. The chip design capacity of Jiangsu Province has been significantly improved.

Zhejiang Province, with the resources of colleges and universities such as Zhejiang University and Hangzhou University of Electronic Science and Technology, has made good achievements in the chip design industry in the past, among which Hangzhou has gathered many chip design enterprises. the revenue of the chip design industry in 2019 is about 15.234 billion yuan, an increase of 46% over the same period last year. Anhui Province takes Hefei as the industrial center, relying on the driving of downstream panels, home appliances, automobiles and other application fields, coupled with abundant human resources in colleges and universities, attracting excellent chip design enterprises, wafer factories and closed test plants at home and abroad. It has gradually formed a comprehensive industrial chain layout from design, manufacturing, closed testing, equipment and materials.

In the coastal areas of South China, due to a large number of downstream end customers, Shenzhen has also become a global distribution center for semiconductor products, and has gathered a number of major integrated circuit design enterprises at home and abroad over the years. In 2020, the sales volume of Shenzhen semiconductor industry was as high as 130 billion yuan, with an annual growth rate of 18.32%. The main driving force for growth came from the chip design industry. Shenzhen has also taken the lead in the field of chip design for seven years in a row.

In addition to Shenzhen, other cities in Guangdong Province have also actively developed the semiconductor industry in recent years. Zhuhai is one of the top ten cities of chip design in China, and it has a good agglomeration effect in the chip design industry. Although there were many chip design enterprises in Guangzhou in the past, they were small in scale and lack of faucets, but with the introduction and expansion of the local fab project, it played an obvious role in promoting the local and provincial small and medium-sized chip design enterprises.

Since 2015, Fujian Province has developed the semiconductor industry on a large scale, especially the development of Xiamen and Quanzhou has played the most significant role in promoting the industry. Enterprises in various industrial chains have landed one after another, driving the output value of the integrated circuit industry in Fujian Province to reach 40 billion yuan in 2020, with an annual growth rate of more than double digits and a rapid improvement in the industrial status of the whole China.

In the area around the Bohai Sea between Beijing and Tianjin, Beijing, as the national capital, is rich in university and educational resources, which has gathered a large number of talents related to the semiconductor industry, and has also created the vigorous development of its chip design industry. in 2021, the sales volume of Beijing's integrated circuit industry is about 83.9 billion yuan, ranking second in the country. It has excellent performance in smart card and financial IC, new generation mobile communications, CPU, digital TV, Beidou applications and so on.

The development of semiconductor industry in Shandong Province used to take Jinan chip design industry as the core. As a national integrated circuit design industrialization base, it has a good foundation in audio and video decoding chips, secure storage control chips and other fields.

In the central and western regions, the sales volume of Xi'an semiconductor industry in 2020 was 125 billion yuan, an annual growth rate of 47 percent, including more than 100 design enterprises, including Hesse, ZTE Microelectronics, Xi'an Intel, Xi'an Microelectronics Technology Research Institute, Huaxin Semiconductor and so on, with a scale of 7.72 billion yuan, ranking sixth in the country. According to statistics, in 2019, the scale of Wuhan semiconductor industry is about 18 billion yuan, a growth rate of 13%. Most of the chip designs are related to optical communications.

The semiconductor industry in Sichuan Province is mainly concentrated in Chengdu and develops quite early, with Pidu District, High-tech Zone, Longquanyi District, Tianfu New area and Shuangliu District as key areas. at present, a large number of leading and excellent enterprises in all aspects of the industrial chain have been gathered, including Intel, Huawei, Texas Instruments, NXP, GE Core and other world-famous enterprises. Among them, vibrating core technology and accurate time and space respectively occupy an important position in China's Beidou chip military and civilian market, as well as Huada Nine days, Lan Qi Technology, China Electric Science and Technology and other large central enterprises. Chongqing's design enterprises include: Ruidi Dike, Southwest Integration, China Science and Technology Core Yida, Waitsen Electronics, Yuxin Technology, Yuxin Micro and so on.

As the status of integrated circuits as a national strategic basic industry is constantly mentioned, governments at all levels and relevant departments also pay more attention to the development of the local integrated circuit industry. In order to promote the high-quality development of the integrated circuit industry, more and more local governments and relevant departments begin to issue integrated circuit industry policies and highlight the importance of the integrated circuit industry in the talent policy.

Talents are the first element of development. At present, the quantity and quality of talents in China's integrated circuit industry do not match with the development trend of the industry, which has become one of the bottlenecks restricting the development of China's integrated circuit industry. Since 2003, the state has issued a series of relevant policies and supporting measures to promote the development of talents in the integrated circuit industry.

In February 2020, the General Office of the Ministry of Education issued a circular on "recommending the second batch of new engineering research and practice projects" to promote the reform of new engineering construction in relevant universities and enterprises and take the initiative to meet the challenges of a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial change.

In April 2020, the General Office of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued a circular on the implementation Plan of Industrial Talent demand Forecast (2022-2022), requiring relevant departments to do a good job in forecasting industrial talent demand in key areas such as integrated circuits.

In May 2020, the Ministry of Science and Technology and other nine departments issued a circular on the pilot implementation plan for granting scientific and technological achievements ownership or long-term use rights to scientific research personnel. The aim is to implement property rights incentives by granting scientific and technological achievements ownership or long-term use rights, improve the incentive policy for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and stimulate the enthusiasm of scientific research personnel to innovate and start businesses.

In June 2020, the General Office of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the General Office of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security issued a circular on the Action implementation Plan for Vocational skills upgrading of the Industrial Communications Industry, clearly building a number of skills training benchmark enterprises in key areas such as integrated circuits, gathering a number of training service institutions and network training platforms, and cultivating and building a number of advanced manufacturing training bases. Select and promote a number of training programs, courses and teaching materials that are urgently needed for industrial development and with distinctive industry characteristics, so as to form a number of replicable and popularable new skills training practices.

In August 2020, the State Council issued several policies for promoting the High-quality Development of the Integrated Circuit Industry and Software Industry in the New era, emphasizing that the integrated circuit industry is one of the cores of the information industry. and formulate and introduce policies and measures in eight aspects, such as finance and taxation, investment and financing, research and development, import and export, talents, intellectual property rights, market application, and international cooperation, to optimize industrial links and promote industrial development. These include strengthening the professional construction of integrated circuits, speeding up the establishment of first-level disciplines in integrated circuits, and supporting the development of integration of industry and education.

In March 2021, the General Office of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the General Office of the General Administration of Market Supervision and the Office of the Bureau of Statistics, in order to implement the "opinions of the State Council on the implementation of lifelong Vocational skills training system", "closely follow the changes of new technologies and new career development, establish a dynamic adjustment mechanism for career classification, speed up the development of vocational standards" requirements, speed up the construction of a modern occupation classification system in line with international standards and in line with China's national conditions. According to the relevant provisions of the Labor Law of the people's Republic of China, the Department of Human Resources and Social Affairs continues to openly solicit new occupational information from the public. These include integrated circuit engineers and technicians.

In order to better solve the impact of talent problems on industrial development, local governments have issued policies on the introduction of talents.

According to incomplete statistics, from 2018 to 2021, Hefei, Chengdu, Nanjing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen all introduced talent introduction policies related to the integrated circuit industry. Governments at all levels and relevant departments have repeatedly mentioned talents related to the integrated circuit industry in the relevant talent introduction policies and hope to gather talents through measures such as providing supporting facilities for talent introduction and subsidizing talents and enterprises.

Among them, Hefei takes the Hefei Talent Classification Catalog as the basis, highlights individual abilities and achievements, and establishes a classified catalogue of high-level talents in the integrated circuit industry based on employment experience, personal salary, enterprise scale and other relevant indicators.

The talent policy in Chengdu is mainly to reward high-end talents to enterprises to form the effect of talent attraction and aggregation: senior managers and integrated circuit design and R & D personnel with an annual income of more than 200000 yuan will be rewarded according to their actual contribution, and support will be given to relevant personnel in terms of settlement, housing security, medical security, children's schooling, innovation and entrepreneurship, etc.

The talent policy of Nanjing Jiangbei New area is mainly from the way of talent introduction, talent award and supplement, talent training and supporting life of talents to build the integrated circuit talent experimental area of Jiangbei New area (Free Trade Experimental Zone). The talent incentive policy in the new Hong Kong area of China (Shanghai) Free Trade Experimental Zone is mainly aimed at software designers, integrated circuit designers and integrated circuit high-end equipment manufacturers. according to the amount of revenue reached by the enterprise, the core team will be rewarded with different amounts.

According to the talent policy of Zengcheng District of Guangzhou City, for integrated circuit enterprises whose main business income reached 50 million yuan, 100 million yuan and 1 billion yuan in that year and achieved positive growth, they will give awards to up to 10, 20 and 30 senior executives and high-end talents in the industry. the reward standard is 80% of the local economic contribution of talents, with a maximum of 3 million yuan per person per year.

Shenzhen's talent policy supports enterprises to become bigger and stronger projects. If the business income of an integrated circuit enterprise exceeds 100 million yuan, 300 million yuan, 500 million yuan, 1 billion yuan and 2 billion yuan for the first time in 2020, the core team of the enterprise shall be given an one-time reward of up to 1 million yuan, 2 million yuan, 3 million yuan, 4 million yuan and 5 million yuan respectively, and each step will be rewarded once. The total number of core teams of the enterprise does not exceed 10 people, including senior managers, leading talents and backbone personnel in key positions, etc. The reward fund is allocated to the enterprise, and the enterprise is allocated to the core team individual.

As one of the regions with relatively mature development of integrated circuit industry in China, Jiangsu Province has issued the most talent introduction policies related to the integrated circuit industry. Governments at all levels and relevant departments have repeatedly mentioned talents related to the integrated circuit industry in the relevant talent introduction policies and hope to gather talents through measures such as providing supporting facilities for talent introduction and subsidizing talents and enterprises.

It is worth noting that the policies of Sichuan, Jiangsu and other provinces and cities all mention more "cultivating talents" through industry-university-research cooperation and "attracting talents" through simplified processes and flexible standards.

In addition, the talent introduction policies issued by Guangdong Province and Hebei Province also mentioned the introduction of talents from neighboring Hong Kong and Macao as well as Beijing to promote the development of integrated circuit industry in the province.

Industry-education integration is a key link in the high-quality development of talents in China's integrated circuit industry. The survey found that more than 99% of colleges and universities are eager to strengthen industry-education integration and school-enterprise cooperation in integrated circuits, carry out in-depth industry-university-research cooperation to educate people, and participate in more industry-education integration projects.

Core things believe that there is a huge personnel gap in China's integrated circuit industry, and there is a shortage of people in all aspects of the industrial chain, especially basic skilled and industry leading talents. Although some domestic enterprises have introduced some high-level talents from overseas, they are still far from the needs of industrial development. In addition to the uncertainty of the external situation, the domestic industrial development environment, supporting policies, as well as equity incentive mechanism, salary and other conditions are also the factors that leading and high-end talents pay attention to.

This article comes from the official account of Wechat: core thing (ID:aichip001), author: core East and West Internal reference

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