Abstract:The immigration system for high-tech talents refers to the system in which a country introduces and manages foreign high-skilled talents. Building a competitive high-tech talent immigration system is a common practice among the world’s major technological powers. China’s high-tech talent immigration system has undergone a historical evolution from strict control to relaxed management, from macro planning to institutional construction, from policy orientation to regulatory implementation, and from national design to local pioneering. It has formed a “local exploration” experience led by the state and demand-oriented. Since the new era, the trend towards internationalization, legalization, and servitization has become more apparent, and the system has become mature. However, in practice, China’s high-tech talent immigration system faces problems such as an incomplete talent evaluation system, complex identity management processes, weak social integration mechanisms, and insufficient multi-party coordination. International experience has shown that diverse and flexible visa options, strict qualification review and quota restrictions, fast track and priority processing mechanisms, comprehensive social integration support, long-term residency and family reunification policies are key to successfully attracting high-tech talent immigrants. In combination with international experience and China’s actual needs, the key to building a high-tech talent migration system with Chinese characteristics in the future is to establish a highly skilled talent migration credit system that changes from subjective assessment to objective assessment, improves the permanent residence system of high-tech talent migration and the market-oriented “foreign talent market test” system, optimize the high-tech talent migration management system of central and local coordinated management and flexible management, and strengthen the skilled migration system to establish a high-tech talent migration recommendation system.