A total of 110
"enterprise bases" have been set up across the country from 2004 to
last year, to help Chinese returning from overseas studies start
businesses.
According to the
Ministry of Personnel, 275,000 Chinese people returned from
overseas studies over the past five years.
The ministry itself has
set up 33 bases.
In the same period,
750,000 experts from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan had been invited
to work on the mainland.
Minister of Personnel
Yin Weimin said China respected talent and the government would
make greater efforts to promote international cooperation in
professional exchanges.
Yin also said at a
national conference that the Chinese government has invited more
than 1.25 million foreign experts to work in the country in the
past five years.
The State Council had
awarded 283 foreign experts the "Friendship Award" for their
contribution to China's modernization, Yin said.
Recently, China has
invited over 200,000 each year to work in a wide range of
areas.
(Xinhua News Agency
December 17, 2007)