I. About the Forum

As Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) celebrates its 100^th anniversary and Shenzhen City builds into a pilot demonstration area of socialism with Chinese characteristics, this year’s Forum is to be held under the theme of “Bringing in Fresh Talents with an Broad Mind” for outstanding young scholars from home and abroad to have an in-depth discussion on forward-looking, fundamental and “thorny” issues concerning the international academic frontier and major national strategic needs in various ways including online reporting. At the same time, the excellent young scholars from home and abroad will have so deep an understanding of Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen (HITSZ), including its development strategy, teaching staff construction and scientific research achievements, and welcome to  join us.

II. Application Requirements

1. An applicant shall be a would-be academic or technical talent  aged 40 or below who holds a doctor’s degree, serves as a regular faculty or researcher at a prestigious foreign college or university, scientific research institution or corporate research institute, and has made scientific research achievements recognized by industry experts, has potential to become an academic or technical expert in the related areas

2. Or an applicant who is to obtain a doctor’s degree from a prestigious foreign college or university or scientific research institution, has stood out conspicuously in the related area, and has great academic potential.

Among the applicants, those with outstanding performance can be directly hired as professors or associate professors through the Top-notch Young Talent Recruitment Program; those who fail to be engaged as faculty may be recommended for postdoctoral fellow position at HITSZ.

III. Forum Schedule

December 17^th: Online Main Forum (including HITSZ leader speech, and policy propaganda, etc.)

December 17^th-18^th: Online Sub-Forum of each school/ institute.

IV. Sign Up

Please visit HITSZ’s talent recruitment website ‘zp.hitsz.edu.cn’by Chrome browser from October 23^rd to November 23^rd, 2020 to register for the Forum. Owing to the limited vacancy of the Forum, please submit an application as early as possible.

After application approval, HITSZ will send an invitation letter to every eligible applicant. Please attend the Forum on time under the guidance of the online conference software.

The latest date that the invitees will receive invitation letter from the organizer will be December 10^th, 2020 . If you don’t receive an invitation letter after this date, it means that the quota has been fulfilled.

V. Sub-Forum Settings

Each school/institute will organize a sub-forum online. Applicants can choose to attend one of the sub-forums according to their research interests. For interdisciplinary applicants, if they are interested in other schools/institutes, they can attend the sub-forums held by such schools/ institutes .

Contact Information of the Schools/Institutes of HITSZ:

3.Ideological and Political Education

VI. University Profile

Founded in 1920, Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) is a national key university of science and engineering committed to the coordinated development of multiple subjects including science, engineering, management, literature, economics, law, and art, and a member of the C9 League (C9). In 2017, HIT was named a class-A university on the list of “Double First-Class” University Project. HIT has 9 national first-level key subjects and 6 national second-level key subjects. In the third round of discipline evaluation by the Ministry of Education, HIT had 10 of its first-level subjects rank among top five nationwide, especially, its mechanics ranked first. In the fourth round of national discipline evaluation, HIT had 17 of its subjects listed as class A, ranking sixth nationwide in terms of discipline excellence rate (the ratio of class-A subjects to the authorized subjects), ranking eighth nationwide in terms of the number of class-A subjects, and ranking second nationwide in terms of the number of engineering subjects.

Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen (HITSZ), jointly established by HIT and the Shenzhen Municipal Government, is a key campus of HIT, a university located in Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province, the first member of C9,also in the list of ‘Project 985’and ‘Double First Class-A’ university to settle down in Shenzhen for undergraduate admission.. HITSZ was formerly known as the HIT Shenzhen Graduate School, which was founded in 2002. As a test field for the higher education reform of HIT, a bridgehead for gathering high-caliber talents, and a demonstration area for international cooperative schooling, HITSZ is an important part of HIT’s goal of becoming a ‘world-class university with Chinese characteristics and with HIT Standards’, an important player in Shenzhen’s higher education system, a pilot zone for building socialism with Chinese characteristics, and a model city for building China into a great modern socialist country.

Currently, HITSZ has more than 510 full-time faculty, more than 150 part-time facluty, more than 200 in-service postdoctoral fellows, and more than 7,800 full-time students. It has 6 subject categories, including science, engineering, management, economics, literature and art, covering 23 first-level subjects, which are offered at its 10 schools and 4 institutes. There will be 900 facluty and 10,000 students at HITSZ in 2023.

VII. High-end Working Platform

HITSZ is building a number of domestic first-class and world-renowned large-scale high-end scientific research platforms to provide support for the world’s top scientists in carrying out cutting-edge research and achieving leading results.The platforms includes:

1. Special Environments Physical Sciences Research Facility

The facility is based on the National Major Science and Technology Infrastructure - Space Environment Simulation and Research Infrastructure, with a total investment of about 1.16 billion yuan. The plan is to build a scientific research and industrial development-oriented innovative technological Infrastructure to provide theoretical and technical support for the development of relevant industries in Shenzhen, including aerospace, ocean engineering, intelligent manufacturing, extreme manufacturing, nuclear industry, electronic information, and advanced instruments and equipment. The goal is to serve Shenzhen in promoting its scientific research, major instrument and equipment development, and talent introduction, and to promote the development of high-tech industries in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. After establishment, the facility will be complementary to HIT’s facilities in Harbin to exploit its overall advantages to the full. It will become the world’s largest, best-featured, and most advanced special environments physical sciences research facility that focuses on exploring space, oceans, and nuclear reactors. The facility will consist of five research systems: Space Irradiation Environment Simulation and Research System, Marine Corrosion Environment Simulation and Research System, Nuclear Radiation Environment Simulation and Research System, Materials / Devices Fabrication and Characterization System, and Comprehensive Test Information Processing System.

2. Key laboratory Clusters

There are 5 national key laboratory Clusters and 3 academician laboratories at HITSZ, including the “State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resources and Environment (Shenzhen)”, “State Key Laboratory of Robotics and System (Shenzhen)”, “State Key Laboratory of Advanced Welding and Joining (Shenzhen)”, “State Key Laboratory of Tunable Laser Technology (Shenzhen)”, and “State Key Laboratory of Special environmental Composite Technology”, which are state key laboratories built in Shenzhen in the “one-laboratory-for-two-region” mode, as well as the “Laboratory of Spatial Information Network and Application”, “Laboratory of Cyberspace Security” and “Laboratory of Urban Engineering Security”, built by academicians.

VIII. Benefits and working conditions

(I) Benefits for faculty

1. Annual Salary: competitive salary (of 350,000-1,500,000 yuan) is provided.

2. Office conditions: A basic office area and laboratory area are provided.

3. Scientific research funds: Shenzhen Government and HITSZ will offer scientific research funds according to different talents’ rank and research interests. The highest amount is 5 million yuan.

4. Residential facilities: HR Department of HITSZ responsible for rendering services to talents by offering them working and living facilities timely and assisting their school-age children in attending a first-class kindergarten, primary school or middle school in Shenzhen.

(II) Benefits for post-doctors

1. Annual salary: About 280,000-340,000 yuan (including a 180,000 yuan as subsidy to an in-service post-doctor, social insurance and housing fund. In addition, the doctoral supervisor can give a perquisite to a post-doctor according tothe performance).

2. Scientific research funds: Any post-doctor that settles down in Shenzhen after leaving the postdoctoral center will receive 300,000 yuan as scientific research funds from the Shenzhen government.

3. Rewards: Those who meet the Shenzhen government’s requirement of high-level talents can be rewarded 1.6 to 3 million yuan. 4. Living support: Household registration permit along with the spouse and children.

It is required that every faculty and post-doctor should join the social insurance and housing fund.Morever,  eligible people can rent a public rental house at a low price.

IX. Contact Information

Contact person for faculty recruitment: Mr. Xu, Ms. Yang

Tel: +86-755-26908264; 26626221

Email: xujianping@hit.edu.cn; yangzhixi@hit.edu.cn

Contact person for post-doctor recruitment: Ms. Qin

Tel: +86-755- 86249132

Email: qinliu@hit.edu.cn