Young scientific and technological talents are a new force in the development of scientific and technological innovation in our country. At the Internet Technology Seminar and Tencent Talent Plan Release jointly held by Tencent and Southern University of Science and Technology on September 24, Tencent released a new special project for talents – Qingyun Plan. Qingyun Plan focuses on future development and proposes "Qingyun Straight Up, Technology Shapes the Future", aiming to attract and recruit a group of top technical students worldwide.
Xi Dan, senior vice president and chief talent officer of Tencent, introduced that for the selected candidates, Tencent will provide industry competitive salary returns and customized training programs, support candidates to deeply participate in cutting-edge technology topics and core businesses, and cultivate Internet technology talents through Tencent’s platform.
Xi Dan, Senior Vice President and Chief Talent Officer of Tencent
10 + technical fields and 70 + technical topics await challenges
As the first company in the Internet industry to position the recruitment of fresh graduates as a core talent channel, Tencent continues to explore and introduce potential scientific and technological talents on campus, and spares no effort to promote youth development. In the "World’s Best Companies" list first released by Time Magazine in 2023, Tencent ranked first among Chinese companies, reflecting the recognition of Tencent’s business development and employee satisfaction by external authorities.
According to the official recruitment website of "Qingyun Plan", Qingyun Plan recruits doctoral students who graduate from September 2021 to August 2024, and undergraduate and graduate students who graduate from September 2023 to August 2024. Graduates with outstanding performance in any field such as academics, practice, and competitions can apply.
For the criteria of the candidates of the Qingyun plan, Xi Dan proposed that they need to have three basic qualities: Qingyun ambition, innovation, and kindness. He hoped that the candidates of the Qingyun plan would have a heartfelt love for scientific research and exploration, a keen sense of smell for cutting-edge technology, excellent professional skills, and the confidence to move forward; at the same time, adhere to the mission vision of "science and technology for goodness" and build a concentric circle of "goodness" together.
Liu Wei, Outstanding Scientist of Tencent
In order to stimulate the potential of young talents, Tencent will set up more than 70 technical topics in more than 10 technical fields such as AI, big data, security, multimedia, database, hardware/infrastructure, game engine, etc., including unlocking AI technologies such as big models, cutting-edge technologies such as robots/quantum, co-building industry-class domestic database/big data platforms, and building AI infrastructure, etc., to support Qingyun plan candidates to deeply participate in the company’s core business. "Qingyun plan encourages young talents to break through the limitations of the field, explore freely at the forefront of science and technology, and’unveil and be in command ‘in key areas. As Mr. Pony Ma, chairperson and CEO of Tencent, said, let science become fashion, and let innovation become the pursuit of young people." Xi Dan said in his speech.
The chief scientist acts as a "mentor" and comprehensively customizes the training plan
In order to help young talents quickly adapt to their positions, the "Qingyun Plan" sets up exclusive job mentors, development mentors, and project consultants, and invites chief scientist Zhang Zhengyou, as well as outstanding scientists such as Yu Dong, Wu Shi, Liu Shan, Liu Wei, Zhang Shengyu, Yu Yang, Dong Zhiqiang, Zheng Yefeng, Shan Ying, and Ye Handong to serve as mentors. By means of daily real-time business mentoring, regular growth mentoring, and cross-border scientific research project exchanges, candidates can better develop, and then take over the "baton" in the hands of mentors. In the industry exploration, problem breakthroughs, and technological changes, they will lead the way and play the leading role.
According to the data, the "mentor group" of Qingyun Project includes the heads of Tencent AI Lab, Tencent Robotics X Lab, Tencent Security Cohen Lab, Multimedia Lab, Tencent Quantum Lab, and Tencent Hybrid Model, covering cutting-edge fields such as artificial intelligence, security, automatic speech recognition and processing, multimedia and signal processing. In the 2022 "Top 2% Global Scientists List" released by Stanford University in the United States, Zhang Zhengyou, Yu Dong, Wu Shi, Zheng Yefeng and other scientists and experts were simultaneously selected for the "Lifetime Scientific Impact Ranking" and "Annual Scientific Impact Ranking".
Fang Hongwei, Vice President and Provost of Southern University of Science and Technology
Fang Hongwei, vice-president of Southern University of Science and Technology, said that the Qingyun plan is a special project launched by Tencent to focus on the future development of the industry, with the goal of selecting and cultivating young people with innovative spirit and practical ability, and for outstanding students who are interested in joining the forefront of science and technology. "I believe that with the careful training of various universities, the strong support of Tencent, and the careful guidance of experts and entrepreneurs, these students will be able to become leading talents in the future technology industry and make important contributions to the realization of national high-level scientific and technological self-reliance."
In recent years, SUSTech has focused on the Internet, big data, artificial intelligence and other related disciplines of information technology, actively promoted the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and worked hard with well-known domestic companies such as Tencent to promote the integration of production, education and research, and serve social and economic development.
Tencent Qingyun plan conference site
As a digital technology company, Tencent anchors the forefront of technology, deepens innovative applications, and prepares for the next generation of Internet technology innovation. As of June this year, Tencent’s patent applications in major countries and regions around the world exceeded 66,000, and the number of patent authorizations exceeded 33,000, ranking second among global Internet companies. In 2022, Tencent’s R & D expenditure exceeded 61.40 billion yuan, ranking first in the 2023 China Private Enterprise Top 500 released by the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce. Three out of every four Tencent employees are engaged in R & D positions.
Xi believes that building a young and enterprising team is the cornerstone of Tencent’s continuous business development and a key element to maintain its core competitiveness. "We hope to provide a broader development platform through the Qingyun plan to help young talents grow rapidly. For the company, we will jointly promote technological innovation in the Internet, big data and artificial intelligence, and continue to maintain vitality. At the national level, we also hope to help the country cultivate and reserve talents, improve scientific and technological innovation capabilities, and tackle technical problems in key areas."
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