Abstract:Scientific and technological talents are the key resources in the high-quality development driven by scientific and technological innovation. This study combs the science and technology talent policies of Guangdong Province in the past 10 years, and evaluates the implementation effect of the policies through the distribution of the scientific and technological talents from 2000 to 2019 and the number of highly cited scholars in 2019 in Guangdong Province. The results were as follows: Guangdong Province"s science and technology talent policy has played an important role in the development of its scientific and technological talent resources, but there are still some problems, such as lack of foresight, little breakthrough in policy innovation, and lack of closed-loop design in policy implementation. In recent 10 years, the total amount of research and experimental development(R D) talents in Guangdong Province has gradually increased and the growth rate has been increasing. The total amount ranks first in China, but the per capita scientific and technological strength ranks behind Beijing, Shanghai, Zhejiang and other provinces and cities. There are great spatial differences in the distribution of scientific and technological talents in Guangdong Province, mainly in 9 cities of the Pearl River Delta. Guangdong has no obvious competitive advantage in the gathering and training of high-level scientific and technological talents, and there is still much room for improvement. Guangdong has unique advantages in dentistry, veterinary medicine and computational mechanics, but it has not yet reached the international first-class level in aviation engineering, marine engineering, industrial and manufacturing engineering, econometrics, finance, art and humanities. At present, Guangdong"s top scientific and technological innovation talent reserves are insufficient, and strategic emerging industries, engineering and humanities disciplines still need to be strengthened.