FAQs About Assessment and Recognition Measures for Senior Professional Titles of High-Level, Urgently Needed, and Specially Skilled talent in Beijing
Q: Who is eligible to apply?
A: Applicants must have established a personnel or labor relationship with Beijing-based enterprises, public institutions, or social organizations and meet one of the following criteria:
1. High-level talent program awardees at municipal level or above, or professional technical talent who have made significant contributions in Beijing's high-end, precision, and advanced industries or strategic emerging industries through major breakthroughs in fundamental research and frontier technologies, solutions to critical engineering challenges, disruptive technological innovations, or resolutions of key technical bottlenecks.
2. Internationalized professional talent who have obtained urgently needed qualifications listed in the Catalogue of Overseas Vocational Qualifications Recognized in Beijing and have made outstanding contributions.
3. Specialized talent with unique, exceptional, or rare skills that defy conventional evaluation criteria, who have made significant contributions to economic-social development, national major strategy implementation, or Beijing's preservation and heritage projects.
4. Other exceptionally outstanding professional talent of particular merit.
Q: What are the recommendation requirements for application?
A: The application adopts a "3+1" recommendation system. Applicants must be recommended by three in-field experts with senior professional titles, and additionally through one of the following methods:
High-level talent: Recommended by the chief officer of the applicant's organization;
Internationalized talent: Recommended by the head of the relevant professional qualification authority;
Specially-skilled talent: Recommended by the head of the competent industry authority or relevant association;
Other outstanding talent: Recommended by the head of the municipal/district human resources department.
Q: What are the steps of the assessment and recognition process?
A: The process consists of five stages:
1. Application and Recommendation
Applicants must submit objective, accurate, and complete application materials, including evidence of achievements and recommendation documents (see attachments), and are responsible for the authenticity of their submissions. The employing organization conducts an initial review of the candidate's professional performance and materials, followed by an internal public notice period of no fewer than five working days. If no objections arise, the organization provides a formal recommendation and submits the materials to the evaluation service agency.
Freelancers may be initially reviewed, publicly notified, and recommended by industry associations, learned societies, or the district-level human resources and social security department of the district resided in.
2. Eligibility Review
The evaluation service agency reviews materials within the stipulated timeframe. If materials are incomplete or non-compliant, the agency notifies the applicant in one instance to supplement or correct all required content. Applicants who fail to supplement or correct the materials within the deadline or fail to follow procedures are deemed to have withdrawn.
3. Assessment and Recognition
An assessment panel shall conduct a comprehensive review of the applicant's academic and technical proficiency, professional competence, work achievements, and performance contributions, and put forward review opinions, which will serve as important reference bases for the evaluation and voting of the Evaluation and Certification Committee.
The Evaluation and Certification Committee shall conduct an assessment meeting chaired by its chairman, with full discussions based on the review of application materials and review opinions, comprehensively evaluate them by incorporating the recommenders' opinions, and vote by secret ballot. An applicant shall be deemed approved if the number of consent votes reaches more than two-thirds of the total number of committee members present at the meeting.
4. Post-Assessment Review and Public Notice
Upon completion of the assessment meeting, the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Human Resources and Social Security conducts a review. Approved applicants shall be publicly listed for no fewer than five working days, except in special circumstances where disclosure is deemed inappropriate.
5. Certificate Issuance
After the public notice concludes without objections, the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Human Resources and Social Security issues an electronic professional title certificate.