As of the end of 2020, Tianjin Haihe Talents had achieved an unexpected result: The program attracted 350,000 successful applicants. Launched in 2018, Tianjin Haihe Talents is a campaign designed to attract new professionals to the North city by offering permanent residential certificates and subsidies.

Among the successful applicants, a quarter of them are involved in smart and high-tech industries. These industries are pivotal to drive the city’s intelligent and digital upgrading of traditional industries and economic restructuring. By the end of 2019, the metropolis had accumulated 6,100 national high-tech enterprises and 20 national high-tech demonstration enterprises.