NANJING - East China's Jiangsu province has issued a statement to attract 10,000 PhD graduates for postdoctoral research over the next five years.

The province will attract more overseas PhD graduates and expand the scale of recruitment of foreign postdoctoral researchers, the provincial government said.

For postdoctoral researchers who finish their work at research centers and choose to continue working in Jiangsu, they can enjoy living subsidies and other privileges.

The statement also encourages enterprises, universities and research institutions to support postdoctoral researchers to start up businesses.

The number of postdoctoral researchers involved in research programs in Jiangsu has exceeded 21,000, and 70 percent of those who completed their research have chosen to stay and work in the province, according to the provincial department of human resources and social security.