Recently, the Guangdong provincial department of science and technology issued the elector list on the Special Support Plan for Cultivating High Quality Professionals (the SSPCHQP). 98 professionals are elected among which ten are from SCUT.
It is acknowledged that the SSPCHQP is an important talents cultivation project established by Guangdong Province to enhance the cultivation of local high-quality professionals through carrying out the decision of central leadership and sticking to the innovation-promote-development strategy, which is estimated to cost 10 years. The Ministry of Finance in Guangdong province spends more than 100,000,000 annually in supporting 3000 distinguished professionals from fields of natural science、engineering technology and philosophy and social science. In terms of the engineering technology, the key point is to support those innovative sci-tech young talents under 35 years old who have great potential for scientific research and technology innovation. (Photos/News School of Civil Engineering and Transportation)