본문 바로가기
  • Home
Basic Search

Evolution and Structural Characteristics of China's Semiconductor Talent Policy for Technological Self-Reliance: A Focus on the "Two-Pronged Precision Strategy"

  • Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies
  • Abbr : JAPS
  • 2025, 32(4), pp.39~64
  • DOI : 10.18107/japs.2025.32.4.002
  • Publisher : Institute of Global Affairs
  • Research Area : Social Science > Social Science in general
  • Received : October 25, 2025
  • Accepted : November 12, 2025
  • Published : December 30, 2025

Yi Sung Lan 1

1한남대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study is to analyze in-depth China's policy to cultivate semiconductor talents, which has emerged as a national task under the competition for technological hegemony between the U.S. and China. this paper tried to track the process of policy changes over the past 20 years through a multi-layered analysis framework called 'Changtip (elite)-waist (engineer)-bottom (skilled manpower)' and to identify key strategies and dynamics that operate underneath it. As a result of the study, it was found that China's talent training system was completed through three key characteristics. First, this system is not a completed 'design' but a product of 'reactive evolution' that has evolved in response to failures (data). Second, the core strategy of this evolutionary process is the 'binary tweezers strategy', which is summarized as a two-stage approach of 'pre-separation and post-fusion'. In particular, the three-stage convergence means a transition to a "matrix-type convergence design" in which heads (R&D elites) and bases (multi-layered talented people) are woven around the field (company). Third, the key driving force behind this 'matrix design' is the qualitative change from 'Incentive 1.0' to 'Incentive 2.0'. As talent training was upgraded to the 'national survival' issue, the mandatory 'new vocational education law' and the 'four major packages (finance + finance + land + credit)' were mobilized, and the timing of linking resources directly related to the survival of companies was forced as an 'unselectable proposal'. In conclusion, this study found that China's semiconductor talent strategy has been completed as a 'state-led talent independence ecosystem' that completes the 'matrix-style convergence' design through 'reactive evolution' and implements it as a 'compulsory driving force'. This is a powerful system that goes beyond market logic, suggesting that it will become a key variable in the future competition for technological hegemony.

Statistics

  • 6 Viewed
  • 6 Downloaded

Tools

Issue List

Citation status

* References for papers published after 2024 are currently being built.

Basic Search Advanced Search