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Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Friday, November 30, 2001

Returned Students Encouraged to Start Business in East China

A government-sponsored symposium was held Thursday in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province, to discuss ways to help returned students establish businesses in the province.


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A government-sponsored symposium was held Thursday in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province, to discuss ways to help returned students establish businesses in the province.

The two-day meeting attracted about 40 returned students from the U.S, Canada, Japan, Australia, Germany, and the Netherlands. They are expected to talk with government officials on how to encourage more students to come back from abroad by offering preferential policies, convenient services and a better investment environment.

The officials said that the government will continue to encourage returned talents especially experts with research experience in advanced technologies and highly skilled corporate managers.

So far, about 2,000 returned students have chosen to go back to the province to work, setting up more than 200 enterprises.

Statistics show that some 320,000 Chinese students have gone abroad for advanced study since the country started reforms and opening-up drive in 1978. Only 140,000 of them returned after finishing studies overseas.




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