Talents Recruitment by Taishan Medical University

Approved by Shandong Provincial Party Committee of the Communist Party of China  and Shandong Provincial People's Government, Taishan Medical University(TMU), Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences and Shandong Provincial Hospital are to be integrated to be Shandong Medical University. In order to meet the strategic requirements for the integration, TMU will further increase the talents introduction.

Basic Qualifications for Candidates:

People who are introduced to TMU shall support the Party’s basic line, lead a moral life in good health and be committed to fulfill the duties of imparting knowledge and educating students with meticulous scholarship and cooperation spirit.

Five levels of talents are specifically listed as follows:

The first level:

The qualified applicants shall be (should meet at least one of the following requirements):

1. Academicians of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Engineering, or Chinese Academy of Social Sciences;
2. Outstanding talents of “National High-Level Personnel of Special Support Program” ( or “Ten Thousand Talents Program”);
3. Tenured professors in prestigious foreign universities.

The second level:

This level targets people not more than 55 years of age and the qualified applicants shall be (should meet at least one of the following requirements):

1. Candidates of Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS), or Chinese Academy of Engineering;
2. Distinguished Professors, or academic leaders of innovation team of “Changjiang Scholars Program” (or “Cheung Kong Scholar Program”) initiated by the .Ministry of Education;
3. Distinguished Experts of the National “Thousand Talents Plan (long-term program)”, or leading talents of “National High-Level Personnel of Special Support Program”;
4.  Awardees of “the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars”;
5.  Experts of “Taishan Scholars Climbing Program” of Shandong;
6.  Chief scientists of the national "973" project or "863" project;
7.  Heads of national key disciplines, or key laboratories;
8.  Talents who have academic excellences equivalent to aforementioned talents.

The “candidates” mentioned above indicates distinguished talents who have academic excellences equivalent to the selected candidates.

The third level:

This level targets people not more than 50 years of age and the qualified applicants shall be (should meet at least one of the following requirements):

1.  Chief scientist of “Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers” (“973” project), winners of “China Youth Science and Technology Award”, or awardees of “Outstanding Youth Fund” (“National Natural Science Foundation of China”);

2. Selected candidates for the National “Thousand Yong Talents Plan”, the National “Youth Top-notch Talent Support Program”, and “Changjiang Youth Scholar Program”;

3. Young and middle-aged experts with outstanding national-level contributions, national-level candidates for “Million Talents Program" or “New Century Million Talents Program";

4. Selected candidates for CAS “Hundred Talents Program”;

5. Selected candidates for the “New Century Excellent Talents Program” or winners of “Award for Young Teachers in Higher Education Institutions " both initiated by the Ministry of Education;

6. Distinguished experts or professors of "Taishan scholars" of Shandong Province;

7. Heads of provincial and ministerial-level key disciplines, or key laboratories, with a doctorate and outstanding academic achievements, should meet at least one of the following requirements:

（1）In recent five years, the top two of the first or second prize winners of national awards, the top two of the first prize winners of provincial and ministerial level award for outstanding achievements in natural science, technology inventions, scientific and technological progress, or social science;

（2）In recent five years, having hosted National Natural Science Foundation projects as project leader, or other national scientific research projects, and key scientific research projects at provincial and ministerial level with over 2.2 million yuan in natural science research funding;

In recent five years, having hosted National Social Science Foundation projects, or other national scientific research projects, and key social science research projects at provincial and ministerial level and accumulated more than 400,000 yuan in science research funding;

（3）In recent five years, the ones who have published professional academic papers as the first author or corresponding author, and at least five natural science papers should be included in SCI, EI or CPCI-S. The impact factor of the single paper included in SCI should be ≥ 10, and the cumulative impact factors reach 20.

The sum of the impact factors of SSCI papers on social sciences reaches 12. The impact factor of the single paper included in SSCI should be ≥ 3.0, or not less than 5 papers have been published in Social Sciences in China or equivalent journals.

The fourth level:

This level targets people with doctoral or postdoctoral degree or professors with master's degree for specialty construction and discipline construction.

The qualified applicants shall be (should meet at least one of the following requirements):

This level is divided into Class A and Class B.

Class A:

1.Selected candidates for "Taishan Scholars Youth Expert Program" of Shandong Province;

Young or middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions at provincial and ministerial level, or winners of “Shandong Province Outstanding Young Scientists Award Fund”;

2.In recent five years, the ones who have hosted National Natural Science Foundation projects as project leader, or other national scientific research projects, and scientific research projects at provincial and ministerial level with cumulative over 1.4 million yuan in natural science research funding;

Or in recent five years, the ones who have hosted National Social Science Foundation projects as project leader, or other national scientific research projects, and key social science research projects at provincial and ministerial level and accumulated more than 250,000 yuan in science research funding;

Or in recent five years, awardees of national research awards as top three principal researchers;

Or in recent five years, the top one of the second prize winners of science and technology awards at provincial and ministerial level or the top one of the first prize winners of “Social Science Outstanding Achievement Awards”.

Or in recent five years, the ones who have published professional academic papers as the first author or corresponding author, at least nine of which on natural science should be included in SCI, EI or CPCI-S or with at least 4 patents. At least three papers with the impact factor of over 5.0 should be included in SCI; at least three social science papers should be included in SSCI, or ten in AHCI or CPCI-SSH, or full texts of at least three papers have been reproduced in Xinhua Digest. The candidates should be not more than 45 years old. 

Class B:

In recent five years, the ones who have hosted one national natural or social science fund project;
Or in recent five years, awardees of national research awards as top five principal researchers;
Or in recent five years, the top three of the first prize winners or the top two of the second prize winners of science and technology awards at provincial and ministerial level or the top one of the second prize winners of “Social Science Outstanding Achievement Awards”.

Or in recent five years, awardees of science and technology awards at provincial and ministerial level as the leading researchers of the project, or of the third prize or above of “Social Science Outstanding Achievement Awards”;

Or in recent five years, the ones who have published professional academic papers as the first author or corresponding author, at least five of which on natural science should be included in SCI, EI or CPCI-S or with at least 3 patents. At least three papers with the impact factor of over 4.0 should be included in SCI; at least two social science papers should be included in SSCI, or five in AHCI or CPCI-SSH, or full texts of at least two papers have been reproduced in Xinhua Digest. The candidates should be not more than 40 years old. 

The fifth level:

This level targets people, not more than 35 years old, with full time doctoral degree who are urgently needed in school teaching and research work. This level is divided into Class A and Class B.

Class A:

The qualified applicants shall be:

Competent to teach, with a solid foundation of scientific research, and the ones who have published more than three academic papers as the first author, at least two of which on natural science should be included in SCI, EI or CPCI-S or with at least 2 patents. The impact factor of the single paper included in SCI should be ≥ 3.0, or one social science paper should be included in SSCI, AHCI or CPCI-SSH, or part of one paper have been reproduced in Xinhua Digest.

Class B:

The qualified applicants shall be:

Competent to teach, with certain scientific research foundation.

In addition, the income level of full professors, associate professors or other outstanding talents, who work in prestigious foreign universities and R&D institutes, should be decided on their practical ability and performance. If such qualifications as the age or degree of urgently needed candidates do not meet aforementioned requirements, the concerning departments where the candidate are needed can submit an application for the recruitment to the university. When the application is approved by the university, the candidates can be recruited in accordance with the procedures for the introduction of talents.

Preferential Treatments

The university will provide due start-up research fund and settling-in allowance to the successful applicants based on their previous jobs who are willing to work in TMU on a full-time basis. The start-up research funds should be applied for research projects by the successful applicants, and after approved by the university the expenditure of the funds should be in accordance with the relevant scientific research funding management approach.

The standards of start-up research fund and settling-in allowance are as follows:  (If any inconsistency between the following standards and the contract, the latter is taken as authentic.)

Talent levels （Service Period）		Academic Fields	Start-up Research Fund (million RMB)	Settling-in Allowance (million RMB)	Academic Title
The first level (five years)		natural science	5 -8	4-6	the first grade professor
		humanities and social sciences	0.8-1
The second level (five years)		natural science	3-5	2-3	the second grade professor
		humanities and social sciences	0.6 -0.8
The third level (five years)		natural science	2 -3	1-1.5	professor
		humanities and social sciences	0.4-0.6
The fourth level (five years)	Class A	natural science	0.5	0.5	professor or university professor
		humanities and social sciences	0.2
	Class B	natural science	0.3	0.3	associate professor or university professor
		humanities and social sciences	0.15
The fifth level (five years)	Class A	natural science	0.2	0.25	lecturer
		humanities and social sciences	0.1
	Class B	natural science	0.1	0.2	lecturer
		humanities and social sciences	0.05