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More Returned Students Work in Shanghai
Rapid economic development in Shanghai, China's leading industrial and commercial city, is attracting more and more Chinese people studying abroad to come back and display their prowess.
The latest statistics show that to date, 25,000 returned students are working in this east China metropolis.
In the recent 20 years, more than 100,000 people left Shanghai to study abroad.
Among the students who have returned, they now work in Shanghai.
There are 73 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering, more than 1,100 are tutors of doctoral students and 80 percent of the presidents of the city's 39 universities are students who have come back from studying abroad.
Almost 50 percent of the returned students are working at state-owned enterprises or foreign-funded enterprises. Many of them have become the backbones of their respective work units.
In addition, returned students have established more than 1,100 enterprises in Shanghai, involving a total investment of 250 million US dollars.
Shanghai has issued a series of documents encouraging returned students to participate in the city's economic construction and social development since 1992.
It is learned that the number of returned students working in Shanghai accounts for one-fifth of the national total.
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