Modern Economics & Management Forum

Against the backdrop of China's strategy to foster new-quality productive forces, the upgrading of regional talent systems has become a core driver of high-quality development. Guangdong Province, as a leading area in manufacturing and digital economy, urgently needs a high-caliber pool of economic management talents who can integrate digital thinking, industrial insight and global vision. Yet existing policies still show fragmentation between talent attraction, cultivation and utilization, resulting in mismatches between talent supply and industrial demand. Drawing on the analytical framework of new-quality productive forces, this paper proposes an integrated "attract–cultivate–utilize" model for high-skilled economic management talents in Guangdong. It summarizes the current situation and bottlenecks of talent work in the province and designs a path including scenario-based attraction, demand-oriented cultivation and value-creation-centered utilization, aiming to provide theoretical support and policy references for building a high-level talent highland.