Can Talent Policies Attract Population Inflows?—An Empirical Analysis Based on Spatial Panel Modeling

To analyze the spatial influence mechanism of talent policy on population flow, this study compares the government work reports of 31 provinces between 2008 and 2020, and quantifies regional talent policies in nine aspects, including talent evaluation and incentives, utilizing a comprehensive, standardized, and continuous approach. Additionally, this paper develops a spatial econometric analysis model and expands on the conventional neighborhood, distance, and economic matrices by constructing a spatial weight matrix that reflects talent flow. The findings indicate that population movement exhibits spatial clustering patterns. The regional government's talent policy, primarily based on talent evaluation and incentives, positively influences population inflow. Moreover, during the implementation of talent policies, local governments demonstrate cooperative relationships. The inter-regional spillover effect between talent evaluation and talent incentives is significantly positive. In other words, a stronger local talent evaluation policy, along with robust talent incentives, encourages population inflow from neighboring provinces. However, this conclusion may vary in different regions and over time. Recently, the spatial spillover effect of population inflow and the impact of talent policies have not shown significant results. Additionally, the attractiveness of talent evaluation in the eastern region surpasses that of talent incentives, while the opposite holds true for the central and western regions. This study investigates the impact of local government talent policies on population inflow and its spatial spillover effect, offering theoretical support for intergovernmental cooperation.

New Interpretation of Western Semiotics from the Perspective of Symbolic Concepts in Zhouyi

Semiotics is one of the core concepts in contemporary philosophy,linguistics and many other ideological fields.Although it is a new discipline founded in the 20th century,researchers from both the East and the West have studied the phenomena of symbols for a long time.Western semiotics came into existence as a new discipline during the 1960s,whose origin could be traced back to ancient Greek philosophy.In ancient China,there was no concept of semiotics,but Chinese ancestors practiced divination by some special symbols,which might be considered the sprouts of semiotics.Those methods in divination were called Lianshanyi in the Xia Dynasty and Guizangyi in the Shang Dynasty.In the Zhou Dynasty,the forms of divinations and their explanations were more plentiful,which were collectively called Zhouyi,posing as"the leading classics and the source of‘Tao’".The study on Zhouyi found that its symbolic concepts possessed explainable relevance to those in Western semiotics represented by Saussure,Peirce and Morris,especially between the three key elements:"hexagram image","hexagram judgment"and"hexagram meaning"in Zhouyi corresponding to the three core formulas:"Sign=Signifier+Signified","Sign=Relation(Medium,Object,Interpret)"and"M=ME+MP+MF"of Western semiotics.The study suggested that exploration into the symbolic concepts of ancient Chinese philosophical classics might provide new perspectives for the interpretation of Western semiotics.

Analyzing Factors Influencing Willingness for Intercity Talent Mobility Based on the Logit Model

Based on a questionnaire data from 553 cities in China, this study used logistic regression to examine the effects of age, education, gender, occupation, and region on intercity talent mobility.The results revealed that individuals aged 26~45 years with work experience are more willing to relocate compared with most college students or individuals with little work experience. Furthermore,individuals who have acquired a bachelor’s degree are willing to relocate, whereas those who have acquired a master’s degree and above are less willing to relocate. In addition, cities offer a higher pay and better prospects for highly qualified individuals, so mobility seems less likely happen. Moreover,intercity mobility is higher for scientific research institutions than that for other industries. Talents tend to flow from central and western cities to eastern cities. Factors determining intercity talent mobility differ from region to region. Therefore, local governments, especially in central and western cities, should actively conduct research on talent strategies while promoting the construction of the city’s regional economy;formulate scientific policies on talent mobility;promote the reasonable flow of talent;and provide an effective talent pool for urban development.