Recruitment Announcement for Postdoctoral Fellows at Renmin University of China for the Fall Semester of 2024-2025 Academic Year

Renmin University of China is the first new-style regular university founded by the Communist Party of China. Its predecessor was the Yan'an Public School established in 1937 during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, as well as the later North China United University, Northern University and North China University. It has always shared the same destiny with the Party and the country.

Young talents are the source of vitality and the Postdociving force for innovation in the school's talent pool. Postdoctoral researchers are a representative group among young talents, characterized by their most active thinking and strongest creativity. Renmin University of China has always attached great importance to the construction of the postdoctoral team, providing support for their growth and development in terms of multiple platforms, resource sharing between the university and local areas, and salary and welfare guarantees, and is fully committed to creating a favorable ecosystem that truly loves, carefully nurtures, earnestly attracts and skillfully utilizes talents.

In 2024, after systematic planning and careful decision-making, the university has restructured its postdoctoral management system, reinforcing the overall positioning of postdoctoral researchers in serving national strategies, regional development, and organized scientific research. To support and cultivate young talents with innovative potential in their pursuit of academic excellence and scientific research peaks, the university has expanded the scale of research-oriented postdoctoral positions and launched the "Pioneer Postdoctoral" brand project. We sincerely invite outstanding doctoral graduates from home and abroad to join us, to seek development together and create brilliance!

The university is building research teams that serve major national strategies and theoretical innovation. Renmin University of China actively responds to the major propositions of the times, quickly responds to the major concerns and demands of the country, focuses on major theoretical and practical issues in the field of philosophy and social sciences, and gives full play to the role of its "unique" philosophy and social sciences in serving the modernization of China. It adheres to building highlands and setting examples in deeply studying and interpreting Chinese thought, accelerating the construction of an independent knowledge system of China, and continuously contributing Chinese wisdom.

The university currently has 34 national and provincial-level research institutions and 77 university-level research institutions. It has established a research platform system that serves national major strategies and theoretical innovation, providing strong project support, high-quality research environments and extensive cooperation opportunities for postdoctoral researchers.

Renmin University of China, based on the principle of "demand orientation, resource sharing, complementary advantages, and common development", is building a new pattern of university-local cooperation and development across the country, steadily promoting win-win cooperation. The university connects its advantageous disciplines with high-quality social resources, innovates the mechanism of university-local and university-enterprise cooperation for postdoctoral research. It builds an integrated innovation system of industry-university-research-application, closely combining scientific research and innovation, talent cultivation, industrial development and social application, and converts the latest scientific research achievements into new productive forces to promote industrial upgrading and economic and social development.

The university has established teaching and research institutions in regions such as the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, the Yangtze River Delta, the Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Circle, and Fujian Province, including the Shenzhen Research Institute (Institute of Advanced Social Sciences, Shenzhen), the Institute of Smart Governance (Suzhou), the Yangtze River Economic Belt Research Institute (Yibin), and the Fuzhou Research Institute. Postdoctoral researchers can conduct scientific research in these teaching and research institutions. In addition to the basic salary, they can also apply for local postdoctoral fellowships and research projects.

Renmin University of China builds a competitive salary and welfare system and career development platform. The university offers competitive salaries and benefits to postdoctoral researchers. The basic annual salary for "Pioneer Postdoctoral Fellows" is 200,000 yuan, and for research postdoctoral fellows, it is 120,000 yuan. The basic annual salary for postdoctoral fellows at the Shenzhen Research Institute is 120,000 yuan (with an additional 180,000 yuan in matching funds from Shenzhen). For postdoctoral fellows in the research direction of high-quality development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, the basic annual salary is 120,000 yuan (with an equal amount of matching funds provided by Yibin City as stipulated).

The university encourages outstanding postdoctoral researchers to apply for various national talent programs such as the "National Key Talent Program", "National Postdoctoral Researcher Funding Program", "Cheung Kong Scholars Program", "Macao Young Scholars Program", and "China Postdoctoral Science Foundation Overseas Academic Exchange Program for Postdoctoral Researchers" by leveraging the university's resources. The national funding can be added to the basic annual salary, with the maximum reaching 400,000 yuan per year.

The university supports postdoctoral researchers in applying for the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation General and Special Subsidies, National Natural Science Foundation projects, National Social Science Foundation projects, and various other research projects and the National Postdoctoral Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition through the university's platforms.

Employers provide diversified financial support and performance rewards based on project conditions and research achievements. The university, in light of actual circumstances, offers postdoctoral researchers apartments, housing subsidies and other welfare benefits.

Postdoctoral researchers who meet the relevant conditions can participate in the open recruitment for teaching and research positions at the university after completing their postdoctoral research, and the university will select and retain the best candidates.

Qualifications for Application

one Age: Generally, it should be under 35 years old.

2. Primary discipline: Generally, it should be across schools or primary disciplines. For those who are exceptionally outstanding, the restriction of entering the same primary discipline postdoctoral research station within the same institution can be moderately relaxed.

In principle, we do not accept employed individuals for postdoctoral research.

4. In addition to meeting the basic requirements for national postdoctoral recruitment, the following conditions should also be met:

Recent doctoral graduates from top domestic and international universities or research institutions, who have obtained their doctoral degrees within no more than three years. For the current year's doctoral graduates applying to enter the station, they must have met the basic requirements for the defense of their doctoral dissertations at the time of application, and in principle, they should obtain their doctoral degree certificates before March 2025.

(2) Possessing a solid academic background and strong research capabilities, having published high-level academic papers in well-known academic journals at home and abroad in the past five years as an independent author, first author or first corresponding author.

(3) Meet other recruitment requirements for the relevant positions of the employer.

Recruitment Process

one Application for Position: Interested applicants should submit their application materials (refer to Attachment 2) to the email of the contact person of the employer before the end of work on November 22, 2024. (The employer fully funds the postdoctoral recruitment, and the position is open for application on a long-term basis.)

2. Departmental Review: Conduct the review and selection in a unified manner as required, and submit the results to the School's Talent Office by December 2, 2024.

3. School Review: The school conducts a review to determine the candidates to be admitted.

4. Station Entry Approval: The proposed recruits must log in to the China Postdoctoral website (http://www.chinapostdoctor.org.cn), and submit the application for station entry through the China Postdoctoral Online Office System, which will be reviewed and approved by the National Postdoctoral Management Committee.

5. Check-in Procedures: After approval, the school will handle the check-in and entry procedures in batches.

Attachment:

one Postdoctoral Station Entry Application Process

2. List of Materials Required for Postdoctoral Researchers at the Time of Station Entry

3. FAQs for the Postdoctoral Recruitment Stage

Office of the Leading Group for Talent Work of Renmin University of China

November 7, 2024

List of Proposed Postdoctoral Recruitment Projects for the Autumn Semester of the 2024-2025 Academic Year at Renmin University of China

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Contact Information

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