Chinese educational agencies took the opportunity of the many
overseas Chinese students returning home during
Spring
Festival to publicize new policies designed to attract more
overseas students to come back to China to serve their country.
The Chinese
Service Center for Scholarly Exchange, the unit under the
Ministry of Education responsible for determining the status of
returned students, said that those eligible for certificates of
status and enhanced visa, entry and other amenities are those
scholars with foreign citizenship whose educational credentials
have been reconfirmed by China. The policies cover:
- Those who have been engaged by Chinese universities and
research institutes as professors or assistant professors, research
fellows or assistant research fellows, and working as chief
leaders.
- Those who need to come back frequently due to the one-year-long
or longer contracts signed with Chinese universities and research
institutes to engage in teaching, researching and academic
activities.
- Those who act as senior managers (higher than vice president)
in Chinese enterprises or companies they have established in
China.
- Those who are carrying out work on state-level scientific
projects and key engineering agreements signed between the central
and local governments and foreign countries.
- Those whose investment in China is above the average level of
local investment.
- Those who will go to China's western regions to engage in
teaching, researching and setting up enterprises to serve the
country's strategy of developing the west.
The aim of the new policies is to make it more convenient for
eligible returned scholars to deal with visa and visitor's rights
and living situations under local administrations of entry and
exit.
(北京晚報
[Beijing Evening News] February 19, 2002 and translated by Shao Da
for china.org.cn March 1, 2002）