“Government Expands Talent List to Include Medical Services and Development & Construction: Hong Kong’s New Employment Opportunities”

The government announced the expansion of the list of talents, which will increase the number of majors from the original 13 to 51, and will be immediately applied to the “Quality Migrant Admission Scheme”, “General Employment Policy” and “Mainland Talents Admission Scheme” to attract more high-quality talents. port.

After the update, the list covers 51 professional jobs in 9 industries, including business support; creative industries, arts and culture, performing arts; development and construction; environmental and technical services; financial services; medical services; innovative technology; legal and dispute resolution services ; Maritime Services.

Among them, “Medical Services” and “Development and Construction” are newly added professional areas, each with 13 and 11 types of work. “Medical services” professions include doctors, nurses, midwives, Chinese medicine practitioners, pharmacists, physiotherapists, dentists, optometrists, etc. “development and construction” professions include construction professionals, civil structures, building services and electrical and mechanical engineering professionals , building, quantity and land surveying specialists, landscape and town planning specialists, etc.

Some majors in the existing talent list will be added to new jobs, such as adding senior artificial intelligence experts and senior cloud infrastructure experts in the field of “innovative technology”.

The Labor and Welfare Bureau stated that the basic principles for formulating the talent list include focusing on high-quality talents that will help Hong Kong’s development; not being able to easily find the required talents in the local job market; not being able to provide relevant talents through local training within a reasonable time. The Bureau also pointed out that some majors or occupations suggested by the industry have not been included in the talent list. The reasons include failure to prove the shortage of relevant local talents; Educational qualifications below degree level are required.