Beijing to Create Better Environment for Returned Students

Beijing will create a better environment to attract students studying abroad to return for the city's economic development, Beijing Vice-Mayor Lin Wenyi said on Friday.

For this purpose, the municipal government will raise its work efficiency, launch a venture capital system, improve the legal system, draw up preferential policies and solve concrete problems for returned students, she said at a seminar on the work of new immigrants in Beijing.

Statistics show some 80,000 people in Beijing have gone to study abroad since the late 1970s, and one third of them have returned after completing their studies.

The development of Beijing will be centered around the knowledge-based economy and the returned students are important human resources, Zhang Fusen, deputy secretary of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, said at the seminar.

He called on more students abroad to come back after the accomplishment of their study.



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