Some 200 Chinese overseas professionals, students and entrepreneurs were locked in heated discussions Sunday in New Jersey of the United States on whether they should go back to China to seek more development opportunities.
Organized by the American United Chamber of Commence (AUCOC), the forum, "Returning to China's Opportunity, Challenge and Risk" was aimed at helping Chinese overseas professionals, students and entrepreneurs to find a solution to the tough choices they face --staying or returning to China for business and career development?
"With the rapid development of the Chinese economies, an increasing number of Chinese overseas professionals, students and entrepreneurs are thinking of going back to China to fully develop themselves," said AUCOC president James Gao.
According to Gao, other hot topics facing the Chinese overseas professionals and entrepreneurs include how to take advantage of China's fast growing economy and leverage their full potential and expertise, where to find opportunities, what the challenges and risks are, whether they are prepared for the transitions and whereto go after returning -- foreign owned enterprise or Chinese companies with global presence.
Major speakers included Mao Zhongying, science and technology counselor of the Consulate General of the People's Republic of China in New York, Jeannie Yi, Wall Street human capital expert and renowned biography writer and vice president of Citigroup Jinshu Zhou, who returned to China and then back to the United States after a successful finance project for IBM, which paved the way for IBM to get into Chinese banking industry.
Cathy Xiaomeng Zhang, a manager of strategic planning at Gutenberg Communications, a global public relations firm, said "I hope to go back to contribute my bit to my country whenever I think the conditions are ripe."
She told Xinhua that quite a number of her Chinese friends have felt the same as they could not afford to lose the opportunity to serve the country.
Shanquan Li, vice president and portfolio manager of Oppenheimer Fund, encouraged students and young professionals to go back to China while they are still young, but Jishu Zhou warned people who wish to go back to China to seek new chances that they must be well prepared psychologically as China is developing very fast.
Source: Xinhua
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