Wy Cheng — China’s Quest to Attract Foreign Talent

This is just the beginning.

The package include 16 new measures, such as fast-track approvals for skilled foreign nationals, a simplified permanent residence application, subsidies for foreign students’ start-ups, and accelerated visas and residency application processes for overseas Chinese. Set to go into effect on August 1, 2016, the new measures, as the ministry revealed, aim to answer “the free trade zone’s urgent demand for high-caliber foreign talent, overseas Chinese returning to start businesses, young foreign students, and investors to realize innovation-driven development of the zone.”

The new policy is in line with the Chinese government’s plan to set up its first immigration office, which was confirmed by Public Security Minister Guo Shengkun earlier this year in an internal meeting. Specifically, the office will be founded by the end of the year by merging and expanding the ministry’s border control and exit-entry administration bureaus. Although the ministry has not disclosed further information, people with knowledge of the plans have made it known that the office would aim at seeking overseas talents to facilitate the country’s transition into a consumer spending and innovation-driven economy.

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China’s Quest to Attract Foreign Talent

Wy Cheng

Brain Drain Hits USA. Negative Selection Begins to Leave Only Political Party Members Behind.

Commentary by Roger Erickson

Where do research scientists go if their country doesn't want to allow enough Aggregate Demand to support cutting edge, basic research?

China, at the moment.

"close to 1 in 5 [US] scientists have considered moving overseas for better funding opportunities"

“People are wasting so much time writing grant applications over and over again and not getting anywhere,”

Heck, since Wall St. has been misapplying so many math and physics majors, why not send health scientists to Congress, to explain reality to dimwit politicians and lobbyists? That presumably couldn't hurt, since the levels of discussion at the highest levels of government are lower than you could possibly imagine.