China has advantages and faces challenges in attracting high-level international talents from around the world to boost the country's development. It will improve its policies and offer better working and living conditions for foreign experts in China.
China's stable political situation, fast-growing economy and increasing economic interdependence with the rest of the world have been encouraging international brainpower to flow into China, said Ji Yunshi, Vice Minister of Human Resources and Social Security and Director of the State Administration of Foreign Experts, on Tuesday.
High-level experts are urgently needed in enterprises and public service institutions as China is in the process of industrialization and urbanization. It is moving towards being more information- and market- oriented, and globalized.
However, China is facing competition for brainpower from developed countries, said Ji. They are able to offer more favorable conditions --- particularly in terms of migration and settlement policies --- to high-level technical and management professionals globally.
Ji vowed to make more efforts to innovate the mechanism of attracting high-level foreign experts and drawing on advanced international experience. He has pushed for policy formulation and improvement; lobbies for more favorable conditions to be offered to overseas experts.
International experts are most welcome, according to Ji, as long as their contribution can promote China's ability for independent innovation; can help change the way of economic development; boost rural development; benefit energy and resource conservation and environmental protection; push forward balanced regional development; and expand the reform and opening-up process.
China received less than 10,000 person-time overseas experts at the end of 1980s. The figure rose to 480,000 in 2007. Less than 900 Chinese went abroad to have training programs at the end of 1980. The number was 70,000 in 2007. International experts are working for all sectors of China and the market is playing an increasingly important role in introducing foreign experts.
Ji's organization has established cooperation with more than 300 government agencies, international organizations, universities and non-government organizations in more than 60 countries.
By People's Daily Online
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