Government urges overseas Chinese to be back home
The government will continue to promote policies aimed at attracting skilled overseas Chinese to return home to develop their careers and build innovative country.
Wan Gang, science and technology minister, said, “It is the talent pool that empowers China to compete in the campaign of global innovation,” during the 5th Overseas Chinese Forum Worldwide yesterday in Beijing.
Wan said that the government has always endeavored to cultivate the nation’s technological talent base, and its human resources in regard to the technology fields are now among the best in the world.
China is emerging as an ever-popular destination for foreign students, with numbers steadily rising over the past several years, he said.
Based on the latest research of the China Association of Science and Technology, the country already ranks sixth in the world’s overseas study market.
“However, the market is still hungry for cutting-edge technological talents,” Wan said at the forum, which appealed over 200 overseas Chinese from 14 foreign countries.
Li Haifeng, the chief of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council, said, “The forum aims to be a bridge for overseas Chinese to learn about the favourable policies of the Chinese government, and share cooperative purposes with domestic peers.”
“I made the right decision to come back to China and restart my career here,” Xue Lan, chief of Tsinghua University’s Public Policy and Management School, said, after studying and working in the US for about 20 years before the 1990s.
But Xue said that there is still a long way for China to go to promote “trilateral networks among academia, state and industry.”
According to the International Labour Office earlier this month, the current global financial crisis could increase world unemployment by an estimated 20 million.
Insiders said that the crisis, which might also affect China, could serve as opportunity to attract more overseas Chinese back home.
“My former colleagues in America call me every day to consult me on the latest information and chances to work in China since the recent economic crisis hit America,” Wang Dazong, general manager of Beijing Automotive Industry Holding Company, who studied in America and worked for General Motors, told China Daily.
The Overseas Chinese Forum ended on 29th October.
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