Hong Kong Asia Weekly recently published an article stating that due to a series of containment policies against China adopted by the United States and repeated unprovoked investigations by the U.S. Department of Justice, many Chinese scientists have withdrawn from U.S. scientific research institutions and have chosen to return to work in China. Reports show that at least 1,400 scientists returned to China last year, most of them physicists and mathematicians, as well as 298 computer and engineering experts, and 478 life sciences experts.
The article further introduced that the wave of Chinese scientists returning to China began in 2020. On the one hand, it is because the epidemic situation in the United States is not optimistic and China's prevention and control effect is better; more importantly, during the Trump administration, the U.S. Department of Justice prosecuted a number of Chinese professors, falsely accusing them of leaking U.S. secrets and questioning their loyalty to the United States. Therefore, the Americans launched this investigation on the grounds of protecting American security. It is also a disaster for Chinese scientists in the United States. This phenomenon will not end until Biden takes office. It can be seen that the discrimination and suspicion against Chinese scientists will not stop in the short term. It is equivalent to a basic national policy of the United States. Therefore, these scientists will choose to leave the United States without hesitation.
In fact, these scientists have many choices, such as Europe and Japan, which can provide relatively complete scientific research environments. Why do they choose China?
In fact, the main reason is that the scientific research environment that China can provide is not available in other places. The first is scientific research funding. China's scientific research funding is very abundant, and the status of China's scientific research centers has also been significantly improved. A large number of scientific research elites choose China, which further promotes China's overall scientific research strength.
The progress of China’s scientific research strength is obvious to all the world. Statistics show that China ranks first in the world in the number of papers every year, and also ranks first in the world in terms of the number of high-quality papers ranked among the top 10 in the world. Behind high-quality papers are the support of high-quality scientific research institutions. The Wall Street Journal pointed out that the research quantity and results of Chinese universities are steadily improving in global rankings. In some "super-influential" research fields, China ranks first.
From the comparison of the above data, we can see that China's scientific research field is moving forward steadily in a virtuous circle. China's high-intensity scientific research investment over the years has created today's high-level scientific research results, and high-quality scientific research talents have in turn promoted the efficiency of China's scientific research investment. This is an excellent phenomenon.
Some people may ask, when Chinese scientists are desperate, of course they have to choose China. This has little to do with whether we invest or not. In fact, this is not the case. Foreign scientists are now more inclined to choose to develop in China. For example, many American and Japanese scholars are rushing to China at an accelerated pace. The reason is very simple: China’s scientific research atmosphere is better.
After American scientist David Brady rejected the unreasonable demands of the US military and was ostracized by his peers, someone suddenly suggested that he could go to China to conduct research, because China is vigorously recruiting foreign professors and experts for development.
Japanese scientist Fujishima Akiya led his scientific research team to join China and achieved certain results.
Americans even suspect that my country’s vigorous efforts to attract scientific research talents are to gain an advantage in international competition in the future. But in fact, our structure is not that small. After the General Secretary took office, he proposed the concept of " a community with a shared future for mankind ". All our current actions, including support for the least developed countries in Africa and the Belt and Road projects in cooperation with third world countries, are based on the common problems faced by mankind today and the survival problems of the future. We believe that the research results of these scientists will be the first to be applied to and serve human society.
So this is in sharp contrast to the behavior of Americans who prioritize military use.When society was highly civilized, technology should have better served mankind. This is the original intention of our country to encourage scientific research and innovation, and I believe it is also the original intention of many scientists to concentrate on scientific research. Judging from the current situation, the cooperation between these outstanding scientists and China should be a natural fit.
On the other hand, the United States, a country that started with talent, ended up losing talent because of doubts about talent. It has to be said to be a tragedy.
Finally, I think it is necessary to remind you that with the influx of a large number of scientists, especially those from the United States and Japan, there is a certain probability that spies will exist, so we need to have a relatively complete management mechanism in place just in case.
