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Overseas students rush home to work

Editor’s Note: It is an increasingly false impression that China’s talents are lost overseas. In fact, the gap between the number of people who returned from overseas and those going abroad is shrinking each year. An estimated 353,500 students returned to China last year, up 29.5 percent compared with 2012. Meanwhile, the growth rate for students going abroad in 2013 to study was only 3.58 percent.

Based on the average rate of China’s returnees over the last 10 years, it is estimated that by 2019, for the first time in history, the number of overseas students returning to China will overtake that of Chinese students going abroad. This transition will transform China from the county with the largest outflow of students to a nation that is attracting top-notch talent at the highest rate in the world.

Overseas students rush home to work
Overseas students rush home to work

Overseas students rush home to work

Ann Zhang

Assistant to the CEO

"I came back from UK to my county last year. For me, going aboard to study was only a new chapter in my life. I never intended not to come back to China. Instead, going aboard was a good experience for me. "

Overseas students rush home to work

Luo Hao

Staff of state-owned enterprise

"After three years in Russia studying and working, I came back home because I was homesick. Being on an expatriate staff in Moscow, I was not really attuned to their way of thinking."

Overseas students rush home to work

Mike Zuo

Self-employed

"I went to America in 1997 at age of 14. Although I grew accustomed to living in the U.S for 10 years, deep inside I never felt at home. "

Overseas students rush home to work

Chen Rong

Chinese language teacher

"I've been in Italy for nearly three years. I’m the only daughter in my family, and I’ll take care of my parents when they are old. It’s not so realistic to take them over here to Italy."

Overseas students rush home to work

Danni Zhao

Graduate student in French

"It is true that according to my own experience, most Chinese students choose to go back to China after graduation or several years of working experience abroad. "

Overseas students rush home to work

Han Fei

Investment manager

"After studying Economics several years, I found it was difficult to find a decent job in Malaysia, not to mention in financial institutions, which is prohibited for foreigners."

Overseas students rush home to work

Min

Graduate student in Australia

"To many people, those who want to continue staying abroad after finishing their study in particular, my decision of going back to China after graduation seems not so understandable. "

Overseas students rush home to work

Sun Chi

Web editor

"I finally surrendered to my homesickness and the loneliness that always lingered in my brain after five-years of study and living in the Republic of Korea."

Overseas students rush home to work

Overseas students rush home to work

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Overseas students rush home to work

Zhu Yanmin, President of Jinjilie Overseas Education Consultants

"Turning back the clock to several years ago, students who were going abroad for graduate schools were becoming the main force of our market, which was gradually replaced by students who seek higher education overseas."

Sun Jianming, director of Chinese Service Center for Scholarly Exchange

"The main reason that facilitated the accelerated return of overseas Chinese students is China's steady economic growth which has provided overseas students more opportunities to utilize theirs talents and abilities back home."

Xiong Yu, Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor at University of East Anglia

"Sadly, though China is becoming more and more attractive, I do not think this would have too much affect on the number of people who take the initiative to come home, unless they are forced to do so."

Overseas students rush home to work

Data Source: Chinese Returnee Entrepreneurship Report 2013

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