The institute insists on talent oriented as the institute foundation, implements the strategy of strengthening the institute by talents, launches “Gathering Talents Plan”, establishes classified employment system and diversified salary and welfare system, and focus on introducing and training young scientific and technological talents through a variety of channels. At present, there are more than 170 employees, including 1 academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1 expert on the National Ten-thousand-person Plan, 2 winners of national science foundation for outstanding youth, 1 expert of national youth thousand talents program, 1 outstanding technical talents of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 8 experts of the Talents Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and 5 winners of national science foundation for outstanding young people. The proportion of doctoral degree is 64% and senior title is 42% respectively.

  
The institute has innovative leading team of “Zhihui Zhengzhou - 1125 Talent Gathering Plan” led by Zhang Suojiang, academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences (committed to research and development of new energy technologies), and Henan innovative science and technology team led by Qi Tao, winner of outstanding youth fund (committed to strategic metal resources and secondary resources clean utilization technology R&D), life and health technology R&D team led by Nie Yi, the “Introduced Outstanding Technical Talents” of Chinese Academy of Sciences and new material technology R&D team led by Zhang Yanqiang, the expert of the national “Youth Thousand Talents Program”.

The institute has established joint “process engineering research center” with Zhengzhou University, and joint “Henan postgraduate education innovation training base” with Henan University, and achieve part-time inter-employment of high-end talents and joint training of postgraduates. At present, there are more than 10 key scientific researchers became the part-time tutor of Zhengzhou University, and nearly 50 graduate students are or will be admitted to the institutes to carry out their studies and scientific research.