Key points: Recently, Paul Boulos Chalhoub, a foreign expert in HZAU, was selected into the 6th"Thousand Talents Project"—High-Level Foreign Experts Project (hereinafter referred to as "Thousand Foreign Experts Project"). Now working in the France National Agricultural Research Institute, he engages in researches on the structure, evolution and adaptation of plant genomes such as those of the wheat, rape and other important polyploids, and uses the information to improve crop characters.

Recently, Paul Boulos Chalhoub, a foreign expert in HZAU,was selected into the 6th"Thousand Talents Project"—High-Level Foreign Experts Project (hereinafter referred to as "Thousand Foreign Experts Project "). The long-term project experts in "Thousand Foreign Experts Project" will obtain one-time subsidies of 1 million yuan and scientific research grants of 5 million yuan from the central finance, and enjoy preferential policies with regard to exit and entry, residence, housing, health care, insurance, tax and remuneration. It was reported that a total of 14 foreign experts in the national colleges and universities were selected as candidates for the sixth "Thousand Foreign Experts Project".

Now working in the France National Agricultural Research Institute, Paul Boulos Chalhoub engages in researches on the structure, evolution and adaptation of plant genomes such as those of the wheat, rape and other important polyploids, and uses the information to improve crop characters. In recent 10 years, he has published more than 50 papers in journals like Nature, Science, Plant Cell and PNAS with 2995 total citation times, among which the citation times of his 16 representative papers were as much as 1572.

In order to attract more high-level foreign experts to participate in China's modernization construction and promote the implementation of the strategy of reinvigorating China through human resource development, according to the “The Opinions of Central Personnel Work Coordination Group on the Introduction Plan of Overseas High-Level Talents", the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, the Department of Human Resources, the Department of Social Security and the State Bureau of Foreign Experts Affairs began to jointly implement the "Thousand Talents Project"—High-Level Foreign Experts Project in 2011, focusing on foreign non-Chinese experts for long-term projects who have been working in China for at least three consecutive years and no less than 9 months each year.

(By Wang Jingjing)

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