"The assembly-line workers were recruited smoothly, but your company needs to build an R&D team, which requires a large number of biologists and chemists. Yet Lvteng City can't supply them!"
"Lvteng City doesn't have a single top-tier university. The highest-ranked is Lvteng College. Although it's considered excellent among second-tier universities, its graduates are still far from being qualified for scientific research!"
Mayor Li said worriedly, "I'm ashamed. I've always said we should bring in high-tech companies, but our city doesn't have high-tech talent!"
"If the mountain won't come to me, I'll go to the mountain." Song He smiled. "Our Chenghuang Company will poach scientists from all over the world. Then Lvteng City will have high-tech talent, won't it?"
"Perfect. I'll give you a hand!" Mayor Li perked up. "Lvteng City has decided to launch a talent-introduction policy next year and increase the relocation subsidies for outside master's and doctoral graduates."
"That's wonderful!" Wei Liqun's eyes lit up in the front row. "Our Chenghuang Company can offer scholars high salaries, while Lvteng City provides relocation subsidies. With both incentives together, recruiting them will be extremely attractive!"
The motorcade turned and stopped at Lvteng Grand Hotel in the city center.
Then came a four-hour welcoming banquet!
There were ten times as many guests as Song He had expected. Lvteng City's officials, Chenghuang Company's executives and shareholders, employee representatives, the R&D team, pharmaceutical factory heads, local pharmaceutical business owners hoping to cling to a powerful patron, financiers who had come at the first sign of news, and elite law firms were all present. The place was packed!
Song He barely ate anything. He kept shaking hands with one group after another, making small talk with one person after another.
Thousands upon thousands of flattering words nearly rubbed calluses onto his ears!
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