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80 Percent Students Abroad Say They Will Return to China
The latest official survey shows that 80 percent of Chinese students now studying abroad will return to their homeland to start a career.
China has sent some 300,000 students abroad in the past two decades, one third of them have come back. And a rising number of students abroad have chosen to return to China in the past few years, according to the survey.
"One reason is because of the economic achievements and growing opportunities in China, and another is because China is paying more attention to the role played by those returned students," said Yue Qianming, a returned student and vice president of the Anbo Group Company.
Yue said his business volume grew seven times in the past six months, and he sees a vibrant market awaiting entrepreneurs in China. After hearing his story, many of his classmates abroad also decided to come home to work.
Like Yue, many returned students are now making economic miracles in China with the knowledge they learned overseas. Zhang Chaoyang, founder of the famous website sohu.com, is in that category. In the past two years, his company has become one of the country's best-known success stories.
In Beijing, the government has set up a special zone for returned students to start their new careers.
The Beijing municipal government offered a lot of preferential policies for the returned students, including the reduction or exemption of taxation of their firms within a certain period and a special fund for them to set up projects.
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