Returnees finding big opportunities

Professor Ren Xiaobing said he was pleased to have made the right choice in 2009, when he decided to return from Japan to join Xi’an Jiaotong University in Northwest China’s Shaanxi province.

In January, he and his scientific team were awarded the 2016 National Science and Technology Award.

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Yue Wenhou, deputy secretary-general of the China Overseas-Educated Scholars Development Foundation, said this is a sincere invitation to talent around the world.

Tang Yonggang, a senior official from the Organization Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, said the reasons for the influx of returnees are the great attention paid to the matter by the Party, national development, the advantage of Chinese socialism, and patriotism among overseas Chinese students.

Wu Ning, who graduated from the Imperial College London in 2003, returned to Shanghai and founded a company that researches immune cell therapy. He said he felt very honored to connect his own dream with the country’s dream.