More overseas Chinese students returning home
( 2003-11-17 11:06) (Xinhua)
More than 580,000 Chinese students have gone
abroad to pursue advanced studies since China began its reform and open-up
strategy in 1978, and 150,000 of them have returned to China.
Along with the country's rapid economic growth, overseas Chinese students
have been returning at an annual rate of 13 percent, according to information
from a forum on mission and development opportunities of overseas Chinese
students in the new era held in Beijing on Sunday.
While adopting a policy of supporting students to study abroad,encouraging
them to return and giving them full freedom in returning or going abroad, China
has also worked out a range of measures to encourage more overseas students to
return, including earmarking special funds to help them start up their own
companies and erecting programs to give awards to successful scholars who once
studied overseas.
According to the information, returned overseas Chinese students have started
up 5,000 businesses across the country, with the annual output value exceeding
10 billion yuan (about US$1.21 billion).
At Zhongguancun Science and Technology Park in northwestern Beijing, for
instance, one sixth of the businesses are operated by returned overseas Chinese
students. Half of the returned overseas Chinese students have made their own
scientific and technological achievements, of which 44 percent are patented
technologies.
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