Students returning to China on the rise

By Zhang Lulu
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More than 350,000 Chinese who studied abroad returned to their home country last year, with the growth in the number of students returning to China surpassing that of students going abroad, said Chen Zhu, vice chairman of the NPC Standing Committee and director of the Western Returned Scholars Association and Chinese Overseas-Educated Scholars Association.

Chen Zhu, vice chairman of the NPC Standing Committee and director of the Western Returned Scholars Association and the Chinese Overseas-Educated Scholars Association, addressed an annual meeting focusing on China’s overseas returnees on Sept. 19 in central China’s Hubei province. [China.org.cn]

Chen Zhu, vice chairman of the NPC Standing Committee and director of the Western Returned Scholars Association and the Chinese Overseas-Educated Scholars Association, addressed an annual meeting focusing on China’s overseas returnees on Sept. 19 in central China’s Hubei province. [China.org.cn] 

The number of Chinese who study abroad has been growing exponentially in recent years, triggering a fear of a brain drain in China. But the new round of the returning overseas-educated Chinese is a reassuring sign.

In his address to an annual meeting focusing on China's overseas returnees on Sept. 19 in central China's Hubei province, Chen Zhu said that a great number of outstanding returnees have helped to commercialize research findings with their work in China, helped speed up industrial upgrading, promote the transformation of the country's economic development mode, and increase the country's independent innovation capacity.

The sustainable development of China and the transformation from "made in China" to "created in China," or from a country that used to be known as the land of cheap goods to one that brings out quality products and innovative technologies, requires the participation of overseas returnees who understand cutting-edge technologies, and have international vision and advanced ideas, Chen said.

Chen called for overseas-educated returnees to combine their professional skills with social development, and integrate their individual aspirations and contributions to the country.

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