Tianjin Municipal Regulations on Promoting Talent Development

Tianjin Municipal Regulations on Promoting Talent Development

(Adopted at the Second Session of the 18th Tianjin Municipal People’s Congress on January 26, 2024)

Table of Contents

Chapter I General Provisions

Chapter 2: Talent Development and Training

Chapter 3: Talent Recruitment and Mobility

Chapter 4: Talent Utilization, Evaluation, and Incentives

Chapter 5: Talent Services and Support

Chapter VI Legal Liability

Chapter VII Supplementary Provisions

Chapter I General Provisions

Article 1: In order to optimize the environment for talent development, accelerate the aggregation of outstanding individuals from all sectors who are patriotic and dedicated, stimulate their innovation and entrepreneurship, advance the implementation of the strategy of strengthening the city through talent, and provide intellectual and human resource support for the comprehensive construction of a modern socialist metropolis, this Regulation is formulated in accordance with relevant laws and administrative regulations and in light of the actual conditions of this municipality.

Article 2 This Regulation applies to activities related to talent cultivation, development, recruitment, mobility, utilization, evaluation, incentive, service, and safeguarding conducted within the administrative area of this municipality.

For the purposes of these Regulations, “talent” refers to individuals who possess a certain level of professional knowledge or specialized skills, engage in creative work, and make contributions to society; they are workers within the human resources pool who demonstrate high levels of competence and quality.

Article 3: Work on talent development shall uphold the leadership of the Communist Party of China, thereby providing strong political and organizational guarantees for advancing talent development.

Promoting talent development should adhere to the principles of Party leadership over talent, serving the overall national development agenda, emphasizing market orientation, adopting differentiated policies, and expanding openness to talent, thereby establishing a talent governance system that is scientific and standardized, open and inclusive, efficiently operated, and based on intelligent information sharing.

Article 4: The municipal and district people’s governments shall incorporate talent development into the national economic and social development plans, coordinate and advance the priority of education, self-reliance and strength in science and technology, and talent‑driven innovation, thereby establishing platforms, innovating mechanisms, and optimizing the environment to foster the all-round development of talent and fully unleash their potential for innovation and entrepreneurship.

Specialized plans in sectors such as industry, education, science and technology, culture, and health, as well as the feasibility studies for major scientific research projects or engineering undertakings, shall incorporate talent development as a key component.

Article 5: The municipal and district-level comprehensive authorities responsible for talent work shall assume overall leadership over talent-related work and talent development within their respective administrative jurisdictions, undertaking functions such as organization and coordination, macro-level guidance, and oversight and inspection, and shall implement major talent policies and initiatives.

The human resources and social security authorities are responsible for organizing and implementing talent policies, fostering and developing the human resources market, and establishing a comprehensive talent service system.

Relevant departments, including those responsible for development and reform, education, science and technology, industry and information technology, public security, civil affairs, finance, planning and natural resources, housing and urban–rural development, agriculture and rural affairs, health, market supervision and administration, state-owned asset supervision and administration, government services, and intellectual property, shall, in accordance with their respective duties, rationally plan human resource development, promote the building of talent teams, and effectively advance talent‑related initiatives.

Article 6: Trade unions, the Communist Youth League, the All-China Women’s Federation, the Federation of Literary and Art Circles, the Science and Technology Association, the Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese, the Disabled Persons’ Federation, the Federation of Industry and Commerce, the Federation of Social Sciences, the Writers’ Association, and other such organizations shall, in light of their respective strengths, effectively carry out work related to talent communication, liaison, recommendation, and services.

Article 7 Employers shall assume a principal role in talent cultivation, recruitment, utilization, evaluation, incentive mechanisms, and related services. The municipal and district people’s governments, together with their relevant departments, shall safeguard and implement the autonomy of employers.

Article 8: This municipality shall implement the “Haihe Talents” Action Plan, refine and improve its talent-development policy framework, build a renowned brand for talent work, and adopt a comprehensive approach to attracting, cultivating, and effectively utilizing talent, thereby fostering a premier hub for talent aggregation.

Article 9: This municipality supports pilot initiatives in Tiankai Higher Education and Science Innovation Park, the Binhai New Area, and other areas to advance reforms in talent development and to generate replicable and scalable best practices.

Article 10: This municipality shall strengthen publicity efforts for outstanding talents and exemplary role models, fostering an atmosphere of respect for labor, knowledge, talent, and innovation.

Article 11: The municipal and district people’s governments shall, in accordance with relevant regulations, establish a system for recognizing and rewarding talent development, and shall confer commendations and awards upon all categories of talents and teams that have made outstanding contributions to economic and social development, as well as upon organizations and individuals that have achieved remarkable results in advancing talent development.

Chapter 2: Talent Development and Training

Article 12: Talent cultivation and development shall adhere to the principles governing talent growth, uphold both moral integrity and competence, foster a scientific spirit, enhance overall quality, and elevate technical and professional skills as well as innovation and entrepreneurship capabilities.

Article 13: The Municipal People’s Government shall establish and improve a long-term, stable support mechanism for cultivating talent in basic research and cutting-edge technological fields, encourage researchers to independently choose their research directions and form research teams, and provide support in areas such as project approval, research funding, and fiscal subsidies, so as to enhance the capacity for original scientific and technological innovation.

Article 14: This municipality shall give full play to the foundational role of education in cultivating talent, promote the development of world-class universities and first-rate disciplines at institutions of higher learning, strengthen the development of fundamental disciplines and the training of researchers in basic sciences, and enhance its capacity for independently planning and conducting basic research.

The departments of education, science and technology, finance, human resources and social security, among others, shall strengthen policy support for institutions of higher learning in areas such as discipline development, program design, and guidance services for university students’ entrepreneurship and employment.

Higher education institutions are encouraged to prioritize the development of distinctive disciplines and programs aligned with the city’s leading industries, co‑establish modern industrial colleges, internship and training bases, and entrepreneurship incubation centers with industrial clusters and parks, thereby fostering deep integration among industry, academia, and research.

Higher education institutions are encouraged to explore innovation and entrepreneurship education by establishing colleges of innovation and entrepreneurship and practical training bases, offering relevant courses and programs, organizing related events, and improving the mechanisms for providing guidance and support to university students in innovation and entrepreneurship.

Encourage eligible institutions of higher education to establish colleges of future technologies in line with emerging trends, cultivating versatile, innovative talents who will lead the advancement of future science and technology.

Article 15: This municipality shall support the conduct of international academic exchange activities and organize high-caliber personnel to travel abroad for study, training, academic exchanges, and other related activities.

Encourage universities, research institutions, and leading enterprises to strengthen cooperation with internationally renowned universities and academic organizations, engage in joint talent development and collaborative research, and actively participate in the organization of major international and regional scientific programs and projects, thereby enhancing their capacity for international collaborative innovation.

Article 16: This municipality shall uphold and promote the spirit of science, with a focus on selecting and cultivating high-caliber, multidisciplinary talents who possess the potential to become strategic scientists.

The municipal departments of education, science and technology, industry and information technology, public security, finance, human resources and social security, agriculture and rural affairs, health, and state-owned asset supervision and administration shall provide support to eligible talents in areas such as project undertaking, academic exchange, and team building.

Article 17: This municipality shall establish and improve institutional mechanisms to foster the growth of entrepreneurs and promote innovative business practices. Relying on universities, leading enterprises, and other entities, it will conduct regular, systematic training in strategic management, market development, business models, capital markets, and related areas; uphold the entrepreneurial spirit; and cultivate outstanding entrepreneurs and professional managers.

Article 18: The municipal and district people’s governments shall accelerate the cultivation and development of young talent, attract, gather, and support young professionals. They shall give preferential treatment to young talent in expert selection, research project applications, and science and technology awards, and allocate a designated proportion of slots in various talent programs in education, science, and technology. Furthermore, they shall support outstanding young talent in undertaking short-term training, academic exchanges, visiting scholar programs, and collaborative research abroad; promote the establishment of postdoctoral research stations, research workstations, and innovation‑practice bases; leverage the roles of academicians’ workstations and academicians’ expert collaborative innovation centers; and attract and cultivate high‑level, innovative young talent.

Article 19: This municipality shall actively promote the development of a high-caliber workforce in engineering and science and technology. It shall support higher education institutions in cultivating outstanding engineers and encourage enterprises and higher education institutions to jointly define training objectives, formulate curricula, implement the educational process, and assess the quality of training.

Article 20: The municipal human resources and social security authorities shall improve the mechanisms for continuing professional education, refine relevant policies and measures, and support professional and technical personnel in updating their knowledge and enhancing their capabilities.

Employers shall incorporate continuing professional education for technical personnel into the scope of employee education and training, and organize such training programs.

Article 21: This municipality shall implement the “Haihe Craftsman” Project, establishing a vocational skills training system that is industry- and enterprise‑driven, underpinned by vocational schools, and supported by both government initiatives and societal contributions.

Departments such as human resources and social security should support eligible enterprises in establishing vocational schools and vocational training institutions, building corporate training centers, public enterprise-based practical training bases, master‑craftsman studios, and high‑skill talent training hubs, thereby creating platforms for cultivating highly skilled personnel. They should deepen industry–education integration and school–enterprise cooperation, promote the order‑based apprenticeship model, implement a new type of enterprise apprenticeship system, foster the spirit of model workers, the spirit of labor, and the spirit of craftsmanship, and jointly train more high‑quality skilled professionals, master craftsmen, and national-level artisans.

Employers shall, in accordance with the needs of production and operations, scientific and technological innovation, and technological progress, formulate employee training plans and conduct vocational skills training in various forms.

Article 22: This municipality shall coordinate and advance the development of talent pools across all sectors, vigorously cultivating and developing specialized professionals in education, science and technology, culture, health, the rule of law, finance, rural revitalization, and other fields.

Article 23: The municipal and district people’s governments, together with their relevant departments, shall undertake integrated planning of scientific and technological research and development, implement major talent‑development projects in alignment with leading industries, and leverage the guiding role of talent in areas such as scientific and technological innovation and industrial transformation.

Support the establishment of national key laboratories, Haihe Laboratories, and municipal key laboratories; set up research platforms such as technology innovation centers, industrial innovation centers, manufacturing innovation centers, engineering research centers, enterprise technology centers, and clinical medicine research centers; and promote the aggregation of innovation resources while cultivating high-caliber innovative talent.

The city is building the Tiankai Higher Education and Science Innovation Park to a high standard, enhancing the functions of university science parks and maker spaces, establishing a multi-tiered incubation system, setting up specialized technology transfer institutions, hosting university student innovation and entrepreneurship competitions, and providing support for students’ innovative and entrepreneurial endeavors.

Article 24: This municipality will strengthen the development of innovation consortia, supporting the growth of “Ten Major Industry Talent Innovation and Entrepreneurship Alliances” in areas such as unmanned aerial vehicles and new materials, intelligent rail transit, intelligent connected vehicles, semiconductor integrated circuits, high-end equipment and intelligent manufacturing, the internet‑based new economy, power and electrical technologies, electronic information and big data, biopharmaceuticals, and aerospace. It will establish platforms for project matchmaking, talent matching, and financial support, provide policy incentives and application scenarios, and promote the integrated development of industry, technology, and human capital.

Chapter 3: Talent Recruitment and Mobility

Article 25: This municipality shall establish and improve a mechanism that ensures the smooth and orderly mobility of talent, uphold the decisive role of the market in allocating human resources while enhancing the government’s role, remove barriers related to household registration, geographic location, status, educational qualifications, and personnel relationships, and facilitate the attraction of all types of talent to Tianjin for innovation and entrepreneurship.

Emphasize flexible and targeted talent recruitment, leveraging platforms and projects to attract talent, with priority given to high-caliber innovators and entrepreneurs as well as urgently needed specialists.

Article 26: The municipal and district people’s governments shall, in accordance with the economic and social development needs within their respective administrative areas, support employers in attracting strategic scientists, leading scientific and technological talents, innovation and entrepreneurship teams, young scientific and technological talents, outstanding engineers, highly skilled personnel, excellent entrepreneurs and professional managers, as well as other urgently needed and scarce talents, who are aligned with industrial development and with the advancement of education, science and technology, culture, health, and other sectors.

Article 27: The municipal human resources and social security department shall, in coordination with relevant departments and the people’s governments of the districts, align with the talent needs of employers, formulate and publish a catalog of talent demand, establish talent recruitment workstations in areas with a high concentration of talent, and organize talent‑attracting and intelligence‑inviting activities such as campus recruitment, innovation and entrepreneurship competitions, talent exchange and matchmaking events, and high‑level talent forums.

Article 28: This municipality encourages higher education institutions, research institutes, enterprises and public institutions, and social organizations to collaborate with the people’s governments of relevant districts in establishing platforms such as entrepreneurship parks for returned overseas students and offshore innovation-and-entrepreneurship bases for overseas talent. It also promotes innovative recruitment models—including online recruitment, overseas recruitment, and talent‑to‑talent referrals—to facilitate smooth channels for returned overseas students to come to Tianjin to engage in innovation and entrepreneurship.

Conveniences will be provided to eligible high-level foreign talent and core members of their teams in applying for long-term and permanent residency, obtaining work permits, and accessing financial services.

Article 29: The municipal and district people’s governments shall deepen cooperation with institutions of higher learning, formulate and implement supportive policies on job seeking, household registration, home purchase, and innovation and entrepreneurship, and facilitate pathways for graduates of higher education institutions to come to and remain in Tianjin for employment and entrepreneurship.

Article 30: This municipality encourages social entities to participate in talent recruitment and shall grant rewards in accordance with relevant regulations.

Support employers in collaborating with human resources service agencies, industry associations, chambers of commerce, academic societies, and other social organizations to attract talent. Encourage human resources service agencies, social organizations, and individuals to nominate outstanding candidates.

Article 31: This municipality encourages employers to attract talent and expertise through project collaboration, the commercialization of research outcomes, technology transfer, and other means. It also encourages universities, research institutions, and enterprises and public institutions to solicit original ideas and technological solutions from both domestic and international sources.

Relevant municipal departments may adopt mechanisms such as the “challenge‑based recruitment” approach to attract talent and expertise, thereby tackling key technological challenges and resolving difficult technical problems.

Article 32: This municipality shall ensure smooth channels for the mobility of talent and support exchanges among personnel in state organs, enterprises and public institutions, and social organizations.

The municipal and district people’s governments shall enhance the level of support for personnel working in arduous posts and at the grassroots level, including rural areas, by implementing various programs that assist rural teachers in their professional development, dispatch science and technology special envoys, and appoint specially recruited agricultural technicians, thereby encouraging and guiding talent to flow to such challenging posts and to the grassroots.

Article 33: This municipality encourages institutions of higher learning and research organizations to establish a certain proportion of visiting positions, and to recruit entrepreneurs and enterprise-based scientific and technological personnel with practical innovation experience to engage in teaching and research on a part-time basis.

Article 34: This municipality shall remain committed to integrating into the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region’s unified talent development framework, supporting the construction of the Binhai–Zhongguancun Science Park, the Baodi Beijing–Tianjin Zhongguancun Science City, the Beijing–Tianjin Cooperation Demonstration Zone, and the Wuqing Beijing–Tianjin Industrial New City, thereby attracting and accommodating relevant projects, talents, and teams. It will also advance the development of vocational school campuses in Xiong’an, establish vocational education program clusters tailored to the industrial development needs of the Xiong’an New Area, dispatch technical personnel to support Xiong’an’s development, and contribute to the construction of the Xiong’an New Area.

The city has strengthened collaboration with Beijing and Hebei Province, implemented regional collaborative local standards for human resource services in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei area, promoted mutual recognition of professional technical qualification certificates, title certificates, and continuing education certificates across the three regions, advanced the sharing of talent and intellectual resources, streamlined talent‑related service coordination, and opened up access to major scientific research instruments, thereby fostering coordinated talent development in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region.

Article 35: This municipality supports professionals holding foreign professional qualifications in taking up employment or engaging in exchanges and cooperation in Tianjin. In accordance with relevant regulations, recognized professionals shall be granted facilitations—such as work permits, entry‑exit procedures, and support for innovation and entrepreneurship—in designated areas including the China (Tianjin) Pilot Free Trade Zone.

Chapter 4: Talent Utilization, Evaluation, and Incentives

Article 36: The utilization of talent shall adhere to the principles of matching personnel to positions, deploying them at the appropriate time, and maximizing their capabilities, and shall be based on talent assessment to ensure the scientific and rational deployment of human resources.

Talent evaluation should uphold the principle of both moral integrity and competence, with morality taking precedence; it should emphasize moral character, capability, and performance, while giving due weight to the quality, contributions, impact, and practical application of representative achievements. Efforts should be made to eliminate tendencies toward an overreliance on publications, professional titles, academic degrees, and awards.

Talent incentives should combine moral and material rewards, be guided by respect for and the realization of talent value, and stimulate their creativity and entrepreneurial drive.

Article 37: This municipality shall continue to improve the mechanisms for the utilization of talent, encourage employers to establish and refine their personnel management systems in accordance with the law, implement all relevant talent policies, enhance the effectiveness of talent deployment, and ensure that the value of talent is fully respected and realized.

Article 38: State organs, enterprises, public institutions, and social organizations shall establish and improve systems for the selection and appointment of personnel that are open, fair, competitive, and based on merit, thereby giving full play to the creative potential of talent.

Article 39: This municipality encourages researchers at institutions of higher learning, research institutes, and other public institutions to engage in innovation and entrepreneurship through such avenues as taking leave to start a business, undertaking part-time innovative activities, founding enterprises while remaining employed, working at enterprises, or participating in project collaborations. During the period when off‑post researchers are engaged in innovation and entrepreneurship, their original employing units shall, in accordance with relevant regulations, maintain their personnel relationships.

Article 40: This municipality shall establish and improve a scientific, rational, and diversified talent evaluation mechanism, leveraging the roles of government, market entities, professional organizations, and employers as evaluation stakeholders. Through methods such as institutional assessments, public evaluations, expert reviews, market‑based appraisals, big‑data analytics, and recommendations by scientists and entrepreneurs, the municipality will conduct categorized and tiered talent evaluations.

Article 41: The human resources and social security authorities shall, in coordination with the competent industry authorities, refine the professional title evaluation system, emphasize the leading role of employing units in the evaluation process, and support eligible institutions of higher learning, research institutes, medical and health organizations, enterprises, and other entities to conduct independent title evaluations in accordance with relevant regulations.

Departments such as human resources and social security shall ensure smooth access for personnel employed by non-public-sector economic entities, social organizations, and those in freelance professions to apply for professional title evaluations. Furthermore, channels for overseas talent to undergo professional title evaluations shall be streamlined: overseas professionals working in this city may, by reference to the city’s standards for professional and technical personnel, directly apply for the corresponding professional title based on their actual work experience.

Departments such as human resources and social security should promote the effective alignment of the professional title system with the vocational qualification and vocational skills grading systems, thereby expanding career advancement pathways for technical and skilled personnel.

Article 42: This municipality encourages state-owned enterprises and public institutions to adopt such remuneration schemes as annual salary systems, negotiated wage systems, and project-based pay, so as to appropriately determine the compensation of high-level and urgently needed, scarce talent.

Employers are encouraged, in accordance with relevant regulations, to incentivize talent through equity, stock options, profit-sharing, and other mechanisms.

Article 43: Higher education institutions and research organizations may, in accordance with relevant regulations, independently determine the use, disposition, and management of revenues derived from the scientific and technological achievements they hold.

Following the commercialization of scientific and technological achievements, the entity that completed the achievements shall grant rewards and remuneration to those who have made significant contributions to their completion and commercialization.

Article 44: This municipality encourages enterprises and public institutions to establish positions such as Chief Researcher, Chief Scientist, Chief Engineer, and Chief Technician, and to provide corresponding remuneration and benefits based on their actual contributions.

Chapter 5: Talent Services and Support

Article 45: The municipal and district people’s governments shall optimize the environment for talent development and promote the establishment of a comprehensive talent service and support system that involves coordinated efforts among the government, the market, society, and employing entities.

Article 46: The municipal and district people’s governments shall integrate the service resources of relevant functional departments, establish a comprehensive talent service platform, streamline procedures, enhance efficiency, and provide convenient services to both talents and employing entities.

The municipal and district people’s governments shall advance the informatization of talent management, leveraging information technologies such as the Internet and big data to strengthen information and data sharing and deliver smart, precision‑based services, thereby enhancing the level of intelligent talent services.

Article 47 This Municipality shall, in accordance with the law, protect the lawful rights and interests of all categories of talent. A dedicated hotline for talent services shall be established, leveraging the government service hotline, to ensure that relevant departments promptly handle complaints and reports concerning talent rights and interests, solicit opinions and suggestions, and provide consultation and assistance on matters related to talent‑related services and safeguards. The municipal and district people’s governments, together with their respective competent departments, shall process forwarded matters in accordance with their respective responsibilities, conclude them within prescribed time limits, and provide individualized feedback.

The municipal and district people’s governments shall, in accordance with relevant regulations, establish a team of talent service specialists who are well-versed in policies, highly competent in their fields, and adept at communication, to provide professional services to eligible talents.

Article 48: The relevant departments of the municipal and district people’s governments shall refine and improve specific policies and measures for talent services, and, in accordance with their respective responsibilities, provide supporting services to talents in areas such as entry and exit, residence, household registration, health and wellness, housing and settlement, employment and entrepreneurship, children’s education, spouse employment, social insurance, and personnel file management.

Encourage industrial parks with a high concentration of talent and qualified enterprises and public institutions to enhance their supporting service infrastructure, attract reputable kindergartens, primary and secondary schools, and healthcare facilities to establish operations on site, and address issues related to children’s education and medical care for the workforce.

Article 49: High-level talents holding the “Haihe Talent” Card shall enjoy policy support in areas such as professional title evaluation, institutional employment, and entrepreneurship assistance, and shall be entitled to relevant services regarding household registration, entry and exit, social insurance, financial services, healthcare, children’s school enrollment, spouse employment, living allowances, and home purchase.

The district people’s government may, in light of local conditions, implement tailored regional talent‑support measures to attract high‑caliber professionals to work and live within its administrative jurisdiction.

Article 50: This municipality shall ensure adequate housing support for talent by adopting multiple channels—including monetary subsidies, rental housing, and talent apartments—to meet their housing needs.

The district people’s government may, in light of local conditions, develop talent‑focused communities that offer a comprehensive range of amenities, including housing, business services, retail, leisure, education, and healthcare.

Article 51 This Municipality shall establish and improve an intellectual property protection mechanism, rigorously implement measures for infringement prevention, early warning, response, and punitive damages for intellectual property infringements, ensure smooth channels for providing rights‑protection assistance to talent, and foster a fair competitive environment that incentivizes innovation and entrepreneurship.

The municipal and district people’s governments shall strengthen the development of an intellectual property (IP) operation service system, improve and refine mechanisms for IP transaction appraisal and valuation, pledge‑based financing risk compensation and support, and other related measures, thereby facilitating the transfer and commercialization of IP.

Article 52 This Municipality shall improve and refine the management and service system for the personnel files of mobile workers, thereby facilitating the smooth and orderly flow of human resources.

Public human resources service agencies and entities authorized by the municipal human resources and social security authorities shall provide basic public services related to personnel files to mobile workers free of charge.

Article 53: The municipal and district people’s governments shall improve a unified, open, and orderly human resources market system. Relying on human resources service industrial parks and human resources service export bases, they shall attract and cultivate human resources service institutions, develop talent in the human resources services sector, and promote the high-quality development of the human resources services industry.

Article 54: The municipal and district people’s governments shall support the development of the science and technology services sector, foster specialized industries such as testing and inspection, data computing, and science-and‑technology finance, establish platforms for business incubation and pilot-scale verification, and provide professional services to facilitate talent-driven innovation and entrepreneurship.

Encourage financial institutions to develop innovative products such as talent‑focused loans and equity investments, diversify their financial services, and increase credit issuance. Urge insurance companies to design and launch insurance products that cover R&D, entrepreneurship, and the health of talent. Expand the scale and scope of intellectual property‑pledge financing, and strengthen the coordinated lending‑investment mechanisms between commercial banks and venture capital and angel investors, thereby alleviating funding constraints faced by entrepreneurs in the early stages of their ventures.

Article 55 The Municipal People’s Government shall establish a special fund for talent development to ensure the implementation of all policies and initiatives related to talent development. District People’s Governments may, in light of their specific circumstances, establish their own special funds for talent development.

The municipal and district people’s governments shall include funding for talent-related work in their fiscal budgets and ensure its adequate allocation to promote talent development.

Encourage social organizations, enterprises, and individuals to initiate the establishment of talent development funds to provide financial support for talent development.

Article 56: This municipality shall implement a target‑based responsibility system for talent work, incorporating the performance of talent‑related tasks into the performance appraisal indicator systems of districts and departments.

Article 57: The municipal and district people’s governments shall establish a mechanism for supporting innovation and entrepreneurship that provides fault tolerance and exemption from liability, encourage innovation, tolerate failure, and foster a favorable environment that recognizes, cherishes, respects, and makes good use of talent.

Chapter VI Legal Liability

Article 58: For acts that violate the provisions of these Regulations, if laws or administrative regulations already provide for penalties, such provisions shall apply.

Article 59: If a state functionary violates the provisions of these Regulations by failing to perform his or her duties, abusing authority, neglecting his or her duties, or engaging in favoritism and corruption, the directly responsible principal person and other persons directly liable shall be subject to disciplinary action in accordance with the law; if the conduct constitutes a crime, criminal liability shall be pursued in accordance with the law.

Article 60: In violation of the provisions of these Regulations, if an employer or individual engages in fraud to obtain preferential treatment under talent policies or illicitly acquire funds, the policy‑implementing authority or the funding‑approval authority shall revoke the benefits granted and recover any funds already disbursed.

Anyone who has been subject to administrative penalties for violating the provisions of these Regulations shall have their information incorporated into the credit information sharing platform by the relevant authorities in accordance with applicable regulations, and shall be subject to lawful sanctions for dishonesty; if the conduct constitutes a crime, criminal liability shall be pursued in accordance with the law.

Chapter VII Supplementary Provisions

Article 61 This Regulation shall come into force on March 1, 2024. The “Tianjin Municipal Regulations on the Mobility of Talents,” as adopted at the 18th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the 13th Tianjin Municipal People’s Congress on July 19, 2000, and subsequently amended for the first time at the 20th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the 14th Tianjin Municipal People’s Congress on May 24, 2005, for the second time at the 25th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the 16th Tianjin Municipal People’s Congress on March 30, 2016, and for the third time at the 7th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the 17th Tianjin Municipal People’s Congress on December 14, 2018, is hereby repealed simultaneously.