Employees are a fundamental strength for the Company’s development and an energetic power for serving the society and local communities. Ever since PetroChina was founded, we have implemented the strategy of building the enterprise based on diversified talents, established and continuously improved the mechanism of talent development, selection and allocation; catered for employees’ needs and career development at different stages; respected employees’ choices, and strived to provide a wide platform for employees to achieve their self-determined goals.

We established three teams - the management team, the professional technical team and the skills operating team – and ensured the creation of a favorable environment for talents to thrive in and grow. Measures such as open selection, competitive recruitment, job rotation and performance evaluation are adopted to form high-level management teams and improve management capability and quality. Measures such as undertaking research projects, leading important projects, holding academic exchanges, organizing further study and systematic training are adopted to form high-level professional technical teams and encourage independent innovation capability and technical leadership. Measures such as training systems improvement, promotion by evaluation, simulated training, on-job training, skill competitions and apprentice system are adopted to form high-level skill operating teams and improve operating capability. By the end of 2007, the Company employed 13 academicians from the ChineseAcademy of Sciences and the ChineseAcademy of Engineering, and almost 700 experts who enjoyed from government allowances, 108 professional technical experts, 79 high-skill experts and 1,200 experts in various fields.