Committing to upgrade the home of science and technology workers
								
							
                        		JIN Junbao, QU Jiansheng, WU Xinnian, ZHENG Yurong, BAI Guangzu
                        	
							
							
							
								
                            	
                            
                            
							
	                         	
	                         	
	                         	
	                         	
	                         	
	                         	
	                         	
	  							
	                         
							
								The flow of high-level scientific and technological talents is a topic thathas attracted much attention. The paper analyzes the distribution characteristics and patterns of the inter-provincial mobility in the 2014-2019 ESI of high level researchers in China. It is shown that the distribution of high level scientists in China is significantly unbalanced, mainly concentrated in the areas with developed economic and science-education resources such as Beijing, Jiangsu, and Shanghai; the net inflow of high level scientists is mainly concentrated in Guangdong, Jiangsu and Sichuan provinces, the net outflow is mainly concentrated in the regions such as Jilin Province, Anhui Province and Liaoning Province; the net inflow institutions include mainly the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Soochow University and Fudan University, and the net outflow institutions include Chinese Academy of Sciences and Peking University. However, due to the large number of high level scientists in the CAS, the outflow proportion of the CAS is not significant. In the end, the results of this paper will help managers formulate the talent policies, improve the talent system, properly allocate scientific research resources, and utilize the global elite scientific and technological talent resources.