Thousand Talents Plan

Thousand Talents Plan
Logo of the Thousand Talents Plan
Simplified Chinese	千人计划
Traditional Chinese	千人計劃
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Qiān rén jìhuà
Alternative Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	海外高层次人才引进计划
Traditional Chinese	海外高層次人才引進計劃
Literal meaning	Overseas High-Level Talent Recruitment Programs
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Hǎiwài gāo céngcì réncái yǐnjìn jìhuà

The Thousand Talents Plan or Thousand Talents Program (TTP), or Overseas High-Level Talent Recruitment Programs is a program by the government of China to recruit experts in science and technology from abroad, principally but not exclusively from overseas Chinese communities. The original program was replaced by another program called Qiming, administered by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.^[1]

Law enforcement and counterintelligence agencies in the United States, Australia, Canada, and other countries have raised concerns about the program as a vector for intellectual property theft and espionage.^[2]