In 2022，the city has a talent pool of 3.63 million talents including 370,000 high-end talents, 912,000 high-skilled professionals.
Continuous efforts are made to improve talent service system. The 4th Yangtze River Delta G60 Science and Technology Innovation Corridor Talent Summit was successfully held in Suzhou. By implementing platforms such as International Elite Entrepreneurship Week and Campus Suzhou Day, the city takes stride to attract high-level innovative and entrepreneurial talents from home and abroad.
At the end of 2022, the number of valid patents for invention reached 104,500, increasing by 21.6% compared that of the last year. The number of valid invention patents owned per 10,000 capita was 80.9, an increase of 14 from the previous year. Suzhou was selected into the first batch of national for intellectual property model city and the first batch of the national pilot cities for trade secrets protection. The number of PCT patent application reached 3019.
The city was titled "the most attractive city in China for foreign experts" for 11 consecutive years.
