Exploring Talent Flow in Optics Valley of China

In recent 20 years, the city of Wuhan has built a big high-tech industry cluster which is named Optics Valley of China. The Optics Valley of China is developing quickly, but scarcity of talent has become the bottleneck for its development. Recruiting talented worker is significant concern and the influence factors of talent flow have been explored. The questionnaire about influence factor of talent flow are designed and sent to 20 core enterprises at Optics Valley of China. 178 high-tech specialists returned the effective answer sheet. In the questionnaire survey, principal components analysis is used to explore the structure of this instrument, which suggests six components: working environment, industry cluster characteristic, urban environment, income, individual development, value and personality. The investigation result demonstrates the top three of these components are income, working environment, value and personality. The result verified the influence factor structure's application in high-tech industry cluster, but it also shows the difference based on high-tech industry's speciality.