The management of talent market was intensified in 2001. Throughout the year there altogether enacted over 930 policies and rules related with the mobility of talents and management of talent market in the country. The management systems like talent market access, on-line talent service etc have been fundamentally erected, the order of the market has been improved greatly and legalized management of the market has evidently been reinforced. In order to adapt to the new circumstances caused by China's entry into WTO, to further intensify the construction of rules and regulations on talent market management, to improve the legalization level of talent market management, the Ministry of Personnel established and delivered the Provisions on Management Talent Market jointly with the State Administration of Industry and Commerce. The provisions took the Provisional Regulations on Management of Talent Market in 1997 as its basic frame, combined the progresses made in recent years, made some structural adjustments for those issues that universally existed and needed to be settled urgently, added some items, intensified its management force on the illegal rule-violated behaviors, and meanwhile also accordingly set up certain regulations for some new problems. The new regulations have for the first time standardized the categories and purviews of personnel agent. Firstly, it confirmed that various enterprises, institutes and units could apply voluntarily for entrusting agent; the objects of the agent include various talents with special technique and management ones. Secondly, it prescribed that general agency businesses could be unfolded providing obtaining the authorization license issued by the personnel department of the government, and as for the special cases like management the personnel archives on behalf of others, examination the political behaviors or records of the one who wanted to go abroad, organization evaluation ofe speciali technical titles etc, must be authorized by the personnel department of the government. Thirdly, it stipulated that both surrogate parities should sign the entrusting surrogate contract, in order to determine both parties' rights and responsibilities, to plight the specific contents of the surrogate etc, to reduce unnecessary disputations, and to ensure surrogate to be normally carried out. The regulations gave prominence to the individual's rights of securing their rights of choosing jobs with self-decisions and equal employment opportunities etc, definituded that the employerwere not allowed to deny employment or to raise the employment standards with the excuses of nationality, sex and religious belief. It also definitely canceled the approval system of talent advertisement, and elaborated clearly to persons that couldn't be employed to ensure the overall interests of the country. Five main categories' staffs, including those who were undertaking the national and provincial key engineering, the technology and management of scientific research projects, are not allowed to move without permission.
The Ministry of Personnel intensified its direction and supervision toward talent mobility and talent market, to standardize the behaviors of management talent market. Notice on Carrying Out Management and Inspection on the Personnel Archives of Nationwide Floating Persons was issued in the name of General Office of the Ministry of Personnel to began to concentrately renovate the disorderly management of the personnel archives occurred to the floating persons in recent years, to organize people to carry out selective examinations toward the archives in the places of three northeast provinces and Shanghai, Fujian, Sichuan and Yunnan etc. The Ministry of Personnel carried out ministery and commissions' annual examination on the intermediary institutions of 2000 talent markets and the year-end inspection and work reporting of the state level talent market in 2000, transferred and distributed the Circular of the Conditions on 2000 Year-End Inspection and Work Reporting of the State Level Talent Market, to direct the state level talent market to further develop. It's a must to accelerate the information network construction and information issuance to improve the informationization level. The Ministry of Personnel carried through and put into effect the "Work Layout on the Talent Market Netting in the Western China", thus fulfilled the alteration of Chinese talent market network, organized the affairs of tendering and bidding on the management information system software construction project for the western regions and state-level talent market. The ministry also promulgated the supply and demand information in the talent markets of nationwide 37 key cities and issued for the first time the supply and demand information of the national talent market.
Through issuance information to coordinate the relation of supply and demand of talents, to direct the talent service, to enhance the energetic dynamic of the talent market, to promote the talents to be rationally distributed in different walks, regions and in the urban and rural areas, to improve the farsightedness, accuracy and systematicness of talent fostering and development, and to realize the overall development and efficient distribution of talent resources with this base, exert fully the role of talent market in socialism market economy mechanism, and maintain and promote the talent market to develop healthily. The issuance of the information attracted wild attention of the news media and the society and caused great influences in the whole country.