With a gap of over 100,000, Jiangsu is crying out for 'thirst'
The integrated circuit industry represented by chips is known as 'industrial food' and is the core technology and main driving force of the information revolution. 'Talent is the first resource for the development of the integrated circuit industry, and it is also a key bottleneck restricting the development of China's integrated circuit industry.' According to Professor Wei Shaojun, director of the National Institute of Microelectronics of Tsinghua University and the leader of the National Nuclear High-level Major Project Team, integrated circuits are typical talent-intensive industries. According to the output value of China's integrated circuit industry reaching one trillion yuan in 2020, at least There are 700,000 related talents, but less than 300,000 people now, and the gap is more than 400,000.
The giant talent gap, Jiangsu occupy the bulk. Provincial Economy and Information Committee deputy director Gong Huaijin disclosed at the forum that last year, Jiangsu's IC industry scale reached 131.8 billion yuan, an increase of 20.5% year-on-year, accounting for 1/4 of the country, and continued to be the first in the country. The output value is calculated in the same proportion. By 2020, the province will have more than 100,000 talents in the integrated circuit talents.
A large number of projects have intensified the tight supply of integrated circuit talents in Jiangsu. In 2016, Nantong Tongfu Microelectronics smart chip packaging test project was completed and put into production. On September 12 last year, the 12-inch wafer fab of TSMC was located in Nanjing Pukou Economic Development Zone. On March 2 this year, Shanghai Hua Hong IC R&D and manufacturing base project with a total investment of 10 billion U.S. dollars was started construction in Wuxi. Xu Wei, executive vice president of Shanghai Hua Hong Geli, disclosed that only Hua Hong’s project in Wuxi, the future It requires 5,000 engineers.
As the national southern microelectronics industrial base, Wuxi's integrated circuit industry achieved a production value of 89 billion yuan last year and employed nearly 50,000 people. Wuxi Semiconductor Industry Association predicts that with Wuxi Huahong, Hailishi Phase II and Central Integrated Circuits use large silicon wafers. 3 other ultra-billion projects will be launched one after another. By 2020, Wuxi will need at least 30,000 additional IC industry talents.
Unmatched supply and demand, business recruitment difficult
The largest source of integrated circuit talent is universities. However, no matter the quantity or quality of training, the cultivation of talents in colleges and universities is out of line with the needs of the industry.
'Design is the core of the chip industry and is also a short board for the development of China's integrated circuit industry. During the 'Thirteenth Five-Year Plan' period, China is expected to require 140,000 chip design talents. At the same time, the national colleges and universities will have a training scale of about 100,000, accounting for a 30% loss. Rate, there are less than 70,000 people who have truly entered the industry, and the gap is close to half. ' Professor Wei Shaojun said that the shortage of talents has caused companies to recruit people very difficult and their labor costs have risen dramatically. Currently, the level of salary for chip designers in mainland China has increased significantly. More than Taiwan, but companies still can't recruit people.
In addition to the shortage of quantity and the problem of 'unbalanced' quality of talent, many companies are also annoyed. Wuxi China Resources Microelectronics is one of the world's leading integrated microelectronics companies and has a reputation as a cradle of China's IC industry. The company is responsible for human resources. Deputy general manager of resources, Yao Dongxi, said that with the rapid expansion of company's production capacity, a large number of basic engineers are urgently required. However, graduates from universities have a relatively large gap between their knowledge and capability structure and corporate requirements. System training is required before they can take up posts.
'Education of engineering talent is a worldwide problem. Especially for integrated circuit talent, we must have both knowledge and skills. We must both innovate and start businesses. Actual combat and cross-border are the two key words.' National demonstration microelectronics Yan Xiaolang, head of the College Construction Experts Group and a professor at Zhejiang University, believes that the creation of a 'new industry-produced discipline' is an urgent task for the training of IC personnel. The 'new engineering discipline' is a distinctive feature. It is based on the needs of the industry and attracts companies to deeply participate in college talents. Train, realize the cooperative education between enterprises and universities, collaborative innovation and achievement transformation, cultivate and reserve more 'marketable' high quality talents for the rapid development of the industry.
Integration of Production, Teaching and Research, 'City Education'
On March 28th, Southeast University and Nanjing University signed cooperation agreements on integrated circuit talents training with SK Hilux Semiconductor (China) Co., Ltd. and the core talents exchange center for integrated circuit innovation and entrepreneurship at the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. Announced to settle in Wuxi.
Last September, Nanjing Integrated Circuit Industry Service Center established a talent training and service platform based on the original three major service platforms: technological innovation, public technology, and system application. It also cooperated with Beijing Huada nine days, Zhongtian Micro, Synopsys, Cadence, Mentor and Sanjiang College, Chengxian College of Southeast University, E-learning Network and other institutions signed strategic cooperation relations and conducted in-depth cooperation on talent training projects.
The establishment of a talent-training and reserve system that integrates production, education, and research has become a consensus that breaks through the bottleneck of talent and speeds up the development of the integrated circuit industry. Yu Weikang, executive vice chairman of the Jiangsu Semiconductor Industry Association, said that the province’s integrated circuit industry is the largest in the country, and the industry chain The most complete, the highest concentration of talent. Grasping a new round of development opportunities, Jiangsu should take major projects as a leader, and further increase the talent introduction and cultivation efforts to ensure that the integrated circuit industry continues to walk in the forefront of the country.
Gao Yaguang, deputy mayor of Wuxi City, introduced that as the 'Huangpu Military Academy' of Chinese integrated circuit industry talents, Wuxi will take 3 billion projects as a leader, and through the implementation of the 'Taihu Lake Talent' policy, accelerate the introduction of high-end leading talents in integrated circuits; Universities, Southeast University Wuxi Branch, Peking University Soft Micro College, Jiangsu Information Institute and other colleges and universities, nurturing more local industry elites; In-depth implementation of the newly promulgated “Opinions on Further Supporting IC Industry Development” to further create a talent development environment, Retain outstanding talents, and strive to form a "Talent Zone" for integrated circuit industry in Wuxi.
Our reporter Ma Wei