recently saw several articles saying that the United States is experiencing talent outflow, and Chinese scientists have given up their positions in the United States and returned to China. According to data from relevant units, more than 1,400 Chinese scientists have returned to China in 2021.
This is a very interesting thing. To see whether the two countries are attractive and what future development prospects are, a very important indicator is to see the direction of talent inflow. Talents generally have the ability to move across countries, and the reserve of talents determines a country's future. It is recognized that during World War II, the United States accepted many top talents from the European continent and created the world's number one empire.
China has been a talent exporter for a long time. There are many Chinese people and they develop faster, but high-end talents are still very useful. For example, a group of returning students in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, led by Qian Xuesen, supported the research on my country's two bombs and one satellite.
Over the past 10 years, the proportion of international students returning to China has become increasingly high. According to statistics from relevant departments in my country, about 80% of international students return to China to find jobs. It is said that the proportion of doctoral return to China is relatively small. My understanding is that on the one hand, high-end talents are likely to find suitable jobs in the United States; on the other hand, as time goes by, the proportion of doctoral return will become higher and higher, such as the current trend of Chinese scientists returning to China is an example.
To become the center of the world, it should not only be attractive to the expatriates in the country, but also to high-end foreign talents.
I don’t have statistics, but I can find some examples. A leaf knows autumn, so as to perceive our efforts to attract talents.
First talk about Tsinghua University. As the highest institution of learning in China, Tsinghua University is of course the most attractive to talents. Everyone is kidding that the three most powerful Chinese in the world are all at Tsinghua University: Yang Zhenning, Yao Qizhi, and Qiu Chengtong. The three of them won the Nobel Prize in Physics, the Turing Prize and the Fields Prize respectively. In addition to Mr. Shing-Tung Yau, Tsinghua's mathematics also has Professor Cauchel Bill Carr, the winner of the 2018 Fields Medal, who also worked full-time at Shing-Tung Yau Mathematics Science Center in 2021.
Southern University of Science and Technology also has a Fields Medal winner, Efe Dermanov. He also joined Southern University of Science and Technology full-time and established the Dermanov Science Center at Southern University of Science and Technology.
Peking University has also returned from a large number of scientists. Let’s talk about mathematics first. Everyone knows that Xu Chenyang went abroad after returning to China. In addition to Xu Chenyang, there are other people in the golden generation of mathematics at Peking University. They have also returned to Peking University or other schools, such as: Liu Ruochuan, Xiao Liang, and Yuan Xinyi. Liu Yifeng went to Zhejiang University. Yuan Xinyi won the Science Exploration Award in 2022. Like Xu Chenyang, Liu Yifeng has won the Sloan Award and the Ramanujin Award.
There is also a famous computer tycoon, Zhu Songchun, who returned home full-time in 2020. He first joined Peking University and became the dean of the School of Artificial Intelligence, and was also preparing to be the dean of the School of Artificial Intelligence at Tsinghua University.
The alumni of the University of Science and Technology of China are also very good, and have returned to China in recent years. Zhu Songchun is an alumnus of the University of Science and Technology of China and joined Peking University. Niu Qian, an outstanding alumnus of Peking University and a famous physicist, joined the University of Science and Technology of China full-time. Chen Gao, a young genius from the University of Science and Technology of China, returned to the University of Science and Technology of China and won the Qing Orange Award in 2021.
Nanjing University is not to be outdone. Shuai Ke, a top expert in the field of life sciences, joined Nanjing University full time, and Lin Anning, a professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Chicago in the United States, also joined Nanjing University. Nanjing University has greatly increased its strength in life sciences.
West Lake University under the leadership of Shi Yigong is of course the first in China in attracting talents. Zeng Anping, the first academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in Germany, , professor of the Royal Swedish Institute of Technology and chemist Sun Licheng, , , Professor Jiang Hanqing from the School of Engineering of Arizona State University in the United States, etc.
In addition to top universities, many 211 universities, even dual-non-universities have attracted many first-class scientists. For example, Akira Fujishima, the father of photocatalysis and a foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and his team joined Shanghai University of Technology full-time.Fellinga, the winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, holds a Chinese green card and is a distinguished professor at East China University of Science and Technology, with a research team. Canadian academician and Alzheimer expert Song Weihong joined Wenzhou Medical University full-time...
The list of people returning to China can be very long, and these big guys will create a team when they come back, which will attract more young scientists to return to China. The following passage is excerpted from an article on the official website of the Ministry of Education:
He Liang studied at Tsinghua University undergrad. When he graduated in 1999, most of the 32 students in the same class, except for those who studied in China, went abroad; when he was reunited in Beijing on the 20th anniversary of his graduation in 2019, most of them had returned to China.
It is true that gathers the energy of the world and the talents from all directions, helping me to have the fortune of China, and it has been magnificent for another five thousand years.
