Native students from Zhoushan sign their names at the employment promotional event held in Zhoushan High School on Jan 25. [Photo/zj.zjol.com]

Zhoushan in East China's Zhejiang province held an employment promotional event for native students on Jan 25 at Zhoushan High School, in order to attract Zhoushan students studying outside the city to come back for work and run businesses after they graduate. 

Organizers from local authorities introduced the situation of the city's current economic and social development and a series of favorable policies for talents to encourage them to work there, such as offering free public rental flats and house purchasing subsidies for university graduates.

Three people who are now working in the city also shared their own ideas and experiences at the event. 

The meeting enabled native students' to have a more thorough understanding of their hometown and triggered their intention of returning to Zhoushan for work after graduation. 

"I think that Zhoushan has undergone remarkable changes and I am considering coming back for work, which is also my parents' wish," said Zhang Mengyin, a native who has been studying logistics at a university in Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu province. 

Zhoushan has been strengthening talent attraction efforts in recent years to accelerate its economic development. With a series of preferential policies for talents, employment promotion meetings and job fairs, it introduced 9,157 university graduates last year, up 52.6 percent and more than half of whom were native students from Zhoushan.