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Chinese city offers Nobel Prize winners $1.5 million housing subsidies

FILE PHOTO: People visit the snow-covered Jichang Garden in Wuxi, Jiangsu province, China January 27, 2018. Picture taken January 27, 2018. REUTERS/Stringer

The industrialised Chinese coastal city of Wuxi is offering Nobel Prize winners up to 10 million yuan ($1.48 million) in housing subsidies to attract top talent in a national economy that is shifting towards innovation-driven development.

In recent years, big cities across China including rising tech hubs in the country's interior have rolled out incentives such as tax cuts to university graduates in a fierce grab for talent to upgrade their respective economies.

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