National interview - returnees and think tanks

 Voice of China, China National Radio Network 60-year countdown live program
Moderator: flu Xie Jianing reports, we will ask Wanghui Yao, vice president of Western Returned Scholars Association, and we returned together to talk about the topic of students, and think tanks .
Moderator: In our studio there in addition to our central station hosts two special observers Jie, now the voice of our live room again a distinguished guest, in fact we are from 21 began to constantly introducing Wanghui Yao, and now finally sat down at the studio. tell us about China and the Globalization Research Center (www.ccg.org.cn) director of the China Western Returned Scholars Association, vice president of Mr. Wang Huiyao, President Wang You give us radio listeners say hello, right?
Wang Huiyao: listeners, good evening, ladies and good host.
Moderator: special program, we are blessed country, we wish the 60th anniversary of New China programs, let us talk about your feelings?
Wanghui Yao: I feel very excited, very excited. In fact, I was just out of the Great Hall, City Hall 4500 guests from around the world participated in this evening feast, banquet hall and had just come out, they came today, the countdown to the Central People's Broadcasting Station broadcast live, and I am very excited, this is a special moment, but a whole nation look forward to the moment, our 60th anniversary fast approaching, and we have many ideas and feelings to communicate and express, I think is so.
Moderator: Actually, the title of president in addition to just the king to introduce, there are many , in which the introduced less specific. read your presentation at the same time, you also served as executives of some multinational companies, such as what Siemens, Alstom, etc. These companies have done consultants. such a rich experience in overseas students which is not common, how did you do?
Wang Huiyao: Actually it is like, I went abroad earlier, I 84 years to go abroad, but was also the first wave of professional reading MBA , to go abroad before I worked in the Ministry of Economy and Trade, MBA in a foreign country earlier, including foreign government agencies and multinational corporations to do for a long time, so after your experience more diversified, relatively easy to deal with multinational because you may know the East-West cultural difference between China and foreign countries, including GE and Siemens to help those companies, they are also more emphasis on such multi-cultural background and background of international talent.
Moderator: here the special Jason would like to ask people, just now president also said the king, in fact, an understatement in a foreign country you are passing, all bitterness, and only you will be able to understand, let students from studying abroad in 60 years the number of changes, including changes including what to do after they go out, learn some professional changes, the past 60 years we can reflect what changes, reading about.
Jie people: If you are 30 years ago, I was in grade school, if I heard Who went to college, especially out of the country, then anyone who is not quite the thing, if it is, then study abroad is one of the top talent of the .10 years in the country at this time that the university is not a particularly surprising thing , but study abroad is still very popular thing, we still go out crammed.
but in nearly a decade, students studying abroad from the past of popular, non-stick landing dust, we all fight to get, and now starting from the so-called China is also a lot of foreign students, back lot, not very surprising. The second aspect, I think it is in the process of market-oriented changes, some people who study abroad choose their professional career planning and how, after graduation to select a suitable work in their efforts to struggle, and perhaps there are some deviations, so he had some hesitation. The third reason is that we now the country's education system and employment system, the system still exist in the international Some wide gap, which were bound to be reflected in employment, so I will now look at data to see the king on the president described as grand, see you look so young and handsome, I still would like to invite you to include myself to explain, for example, whether students or graduates of a country, and his career may need to have any attention?
Moderator: too practical significance of the.
Wang Huiyao: I will answer your question just now, 60 years of change may also have three aspects, the first year of the elite from the popular to the present study to study, over five hurdles, but also to find a scholarship to study very few people and now many middle-class homes of ordinary people in China have begun to grow. The second is former professional small, mostly read more Polytechnic, now a large number of such time management, finance, computers and many other practical subjects very much. the third is a large number of students now back in business, with previous generations of students are not the same. returnees before I discovered the writings of the study, the first four generations of students many of which are technology Salvation, a lot of entrepreneurship, the contemporary characteristics of international students there are many such.
you just asked a very good question, and now the students Ye Hao, Ye Hao domestic students, career planning should pay attention to what I think There are also several aspects, for example, first start with a position yourself for what you have to know what their core competencies in place, I tell people what is not the same, to create what kind of competitive edge. The second I think a very important one is likely to keep up the trend of the times together, for example, is now an era of globalization, an international time how I like to combine this, the skills and training in this area of knowledge in this area accumulation. The third is I think the more important career planning, then, in the time before the younger, the age of capital in their own time there, try several different industry or business, found himself most interested in what most can play to their strengths, and then found the right to do so sustained over time will certainly make a difference. life planning is the Chinese people in general more important.
Jie person: Actually, I also noticed that Mr. Wang's that the trend of the times, I think I actually did not say a word just now is the returnees, especially in China six years of change in employment in China last three decades, the trend also reflects the changes in China, no matter what from the past source can have a place to use later, or have some way of picking, and even competition, which shows that China is actually in employment positions, the occupational breakdown, in the individual talent, talent competition at all levels is also a big development. His profound reason is China's rapid economic and social development.
Moderator: Yes, the king has his president in his book called Hot and Cold Health Movement is a barometer of China's modernization process, which should be 30 years of studying the phenomenon and the extent of China's economic development is proportional to the.
Wang Huiyao: You're very right, and I can give you some data, for example, since the reform and opening up our students in 2009, I expect this year may reach 1.6 million accumulated abroad, Deng Xiaoping, although not a two factions, to send tens of thousands, in fact, to every year since 2000 a million or more, there is a blowout phenomenon. enter into WTO in 2001, when after more than ten million per year, last year reached a million, there may be more people this year. bringing the total to 160 million people, has become a large social groups, but also a lot of home, home is now more than 40 million people, certainly not the majority or a minority. As the Chinese economy took off, returned overseas students will usher in a climax. which I have encountered many days abroad, including students that want to come back, people told me today, India and China also have the return of hundreds of thousands of people plan, overseas, going back to big developing countries such as China and India, countries.
Moderator: Now there may be a reality, the current global financial crisis, after all, a background, as the returning students, do not optimistic about the employment status, employment pressure to let its big. These returnees School to return to employment, then what should have or areas in which quality should be prepared? particular attention to what?
Wang Huiyao: This is actually Tingduo, some returnees to be the sea change is a normal phenomenon, indeed Note the large number of returnees now, and any group has the lower, left, right, there is definitely some of the problems faced by some people. But I think the middle part can be overcome, for example, I know some of my friends come back work, he returned to the job market turned around, handed the ring to his resume and go home no one had. actually be rolling back down, should be familiar with the environment. Many people do not adapt back to the domestic environment, he need time to adapt, or even looking any. I know a friend told me returnees, he came back to find a friend is not found, a friend offered to enterprises in which the friends of the enterprise to know what Beijing where IBM, Motorola where is equal to the familiar environment of his resume, after not blank. Comparison avoid the back six months, someone asked what you have, the more it away, then to the difficulties, to try to reduce the gaps on a resume , and then some experience. more important is to have a mind to be correct, can not say I came back outside, my classmates fifty thousand dollars a year in the United States, I have fifty thousand dollars back, this is not realistic . with foreign purchasing power of many aspects of China is not the same, the United States by bus is 2 U.S. dollars, China may be two yuan, not the same purchasing power. To open mind. The third is very important to keep up the formation of local elites the advantage of a team co-operation.
Jie people: In fact, I would like to put these words down, I usually some of the staff in the recruitment process, contact with some of the returnees have some ideas, I want to say two things One is indeed part of the returnees now number in the end on the outside to learn how to do it is worth fighting a question. As far as I know in some extreme cases, some so-called returnees turn out for a year, pull out a master degree back, he is not even learn English, told a group of local Chinese children, Chinese children together meals, lodging, many foreign schools to check the master's thesis is not very strict, did not mean he came back to school a lot. This is a disappointing reason, it has thus bring disaster to the other children. The second I think the current social values as a diversified background, if it is determined the success of their so-called value of benchmarking is very important, it may be decades before many people feel that an official high level of success is the only value, then now, I think the example you set up a business successful, you do a NGO, or even a have social significance of one other thing, I think that is a standard of success, so in this standard when you can diversify, we will find out his open-minded.
Moderator: real is gold-plated the.
Wang Huiyao: that situation more, after all, we appear on the millions of students, the middle part of this, some countries like the UK one-year master's behavior, so a graduate school to read a foreign Master's back, is not necessarily better than the English domestic clearance, I was not quite recommend students to go out every day after the soak in the Chinatown Chinese newspapers, watching DVDs in China, speaking Chinese students no real use of the environment.
chair by: listeners are now listening to your new 60th Anniversary Special Report Jie people. The following section into the ad, then we and the guests chat together the problems returned students.
Moderator: Welcome everyone to listen to our special live together, including our special commentator Jie students together to talk about the issue. In addition to students outside of your China Western Returned Scholars Association, the original people has been called the Western Returned Scholars Association or the original name?
Wang Huiyao: Europe Alumni Association is a relatively long history of the institution, and in 1913 was by the Represented, Hu Shi, Cai, Wellington Koo, who initiated the .90 years old I think it is very long, in the middle of the birth of a large number of Chinese people, into the Since the reform and opening up a new vitality and glow, because we are a large number of new students come back, these students also need a platform to come back, because many of the students are back outside the system, does not belong to institutions or are units of a, how to integrate these students is a new topic for Western Returned Scholars Association. in fact not different from abroad in China, mainly for returnees. In the Beijing area has 15,000 people in the country there are about 20 group members, add up to 5 million people.
Moderator: It should be said that Western Returned Scholars Association in strengthening the links should be made overseas, a lot of work in it can give us one or two things. < br> Wang Huiyao: You can have a new focus in recent years Western Returned Scholars Association, Chamber of Commerce in 2002, we started this home business which attract a large number of people, such as Tian, Zhang is our core members. well we have done some suggestions and ideas, offer advice and suggestions we have set up the Committee, in August, we invited nearly 50 high-level overseas talents back to offer advice and suggestions, including the Central Committee of the thousands of programs in the Western Returned Scholars Association has done a lot of inside research, with the state to do a lot of suggestions. The last time we invited back more than 50 high-level talent with the NPC, including the Han Qide president, held talks with the Central Organization Department Minister Li Yuanchao several hours, for the promotion of national talent, and I Western Returned Scholars think a lot of work to do. These are large numbers of people back. Now is the Western Returned Scholars Association has a new special offer advice and suggestions, for example, last weekend we held a 60th of a forum on national image, We invited Mr. Zhao Qizheng, we ask a lot of returned overseas students to attend this forum. I think it is has become a very active platform to attract overseas students to participate in our activities.
chair by: Jie people how you look?
Jie people: in fact, returned to contribute to all students to contribute to, familiar to everyone, is Qian's return, play an important role in Western Returned Scholars Association. In fact I do just There is a list of, for instance, Zhan Tianyou, Hu Shi, Cai, Ma Yinchu, Qian, Deng Jiaxian, Cheng Siyuan, Song Jian and so these people are students in their return as a process, played a very important Western Returned Scholars Association the role, I see more than just a friendship of the Western Returned Scholars organization, even in the economic, political, cultural and scientific question can be so profound to all areas affected overseas academics and scholars, including returned overseas students, and after talent, I think in the new era is the most important role may be to take this opportunity today, a suggestion to President King, the original can not be based on how to integrate a variety of advanced culture in China, the world's contending, has done some of the flourishing more work.
Wang Huiyao: Western Returned Scholars Association is not just a networking organization, or a think tank focused on how high the level of considerable talent, with more than two academicians, as well as more than two hundred stepping down Minister Deputy Minister, to the advantage of such talent to play them, play to their advantages of think tanks, and the Western Returned Scholars Association together we set up a research center in China and globalization, there is the state we also offer advice and suggestions, there are many reports that Central leaders of the instructions received, I think there is a very important following our overseas there are more than one million students, which this group of elite high-end experts entrepreneurs integrate them and put them integrate ideas, that particular Chinese culture to build on the strength of China, China's ideological construction of the development will play the role of many.
Jie person: I am very in favor of, say think-tank, think tanks should be is a foreign word, first appeared in a foreign country, China is also a special emphasis on think tank the past two years, in particular, think tanks of the building. I would like to returnees WRSA If the past is still used up progressively in their respective positions to play a role in the case, the future may be in various forms, such as virtual or real? let everyone play to collective wisdom, I also note here also established a Western Returned Scholars Association of China and Globalization Research Center, is a real private sector think tank, and it is characterized by financial independence, and independence of decision-making should be based on science and technology policy and rules to government departments to the views of decision making.
Wang Huiyao: in particular, with no What interest, direct the release of a direct view of independence.
Moderator: I also noticed that the independence of the king, president stressed the significance of think tanks, you think-tank for the building of China, especially China, think tank In the international, including the complete independence of these two aspects of what opinion do?
Wanghui Yao: I think we should pay attention to is the growing problem of China after 60 years of development, especially after nearly 30 years of development, China to build the hardware, we built the Three Gorges, and we give it away on the day of the spacecraft; soft power, we are also a very efficient in terms of administrative efficiency of the national state, for the pre-policy argument, I think more and more and more important , there are a lot of Research Institute, Research Center are in government within the system. We should develop outside the system, including the independence of a relatively strong civil society institutions to offer advice and suggestions for the country, so there are various different channels, different voice to counter some of the real need to reflect some of the problems, so better able to promote the country's construction, such as economic development, I think this is more important at this stage of the.
Jie person: I think local returnees and internally as the biggest difference is the growth of a variety of cultural backgrounds, different cultures all grew up feeling different academic environment, based on a variety of cultures, habits of mind, we gathered a time, met many sparks of wisdom, culture, thinking, system construction, etc., will be able to play their respective roles.
Moderator: The discussion has just two guests, we get a consensus must be established by the Chinese think tanks overseas human resources, but the reality of what is before us is that we have seen repeatedly in the press were also some data, such as students each year, the real effect of the motherland may be returned only 10%, or percentage of how much, in fact, this figure is not particularly large, for the trained brain drain, we use what kind of way, what kind of mechanism to be able to really attract them back, rather than simply give them to send house, send some material.
Wang Huiyao: Moderator mention very good question, the current situation is a very large number of Chinese students, and ranked first in many countries, the United States, Britain, Australia, Canada are is ranked first, but do face a serious shortage of high-end talent back, for example, students of Dr. less than 10% return rate, this is a relatively low return rate. this as you just said, do we light is to provide an example of the material conditions that might have been not a very basic conditions, we need to create a soft environment, such as the employment mechanism, in the appointment of the above, in particular, can give them build a platform to play their real effect. There is to make students participate in politics, by playing their voice, they are absorbed within the system to come to attention in many respects at least, I think in this respect that I think we have a lot of the way to go, can not only to students as a technical talents as professionals to use, and to them as a full range of talent, a wide range of talent and international talent, in fact, China is now dealing with the international community is facing such a complicated international situation, there are so many new problems dealing with, we need a large number of highly talented international career to help us, I think this effort needs to be done.
Jie person: Mr. Wang said, I heard I am deeply with feelings, first of all is the one aspect of the system, he said the words, I think China is the future for a period of time may need to break an idea that the so-called institutional differences within and outside the system, it must take the middle of the gap opened up, so that No matter if the growth of a local scholar, or foreign scholars come back, regardless of their own run a business, or government, or state-owned enterprises, as long as they can be valued, recognized the country, which need to break the divide was. another aspect is the talent in the future, including as philosophy, history, law, economics, etc. in the liberal arts talents are needed. because of one without thinking of the nation is no hope for the nation, so I think in this we have experienced several years of science and engineering human desire for, the next paragraph should be the same for the liberal arts people pay attention to it.
Moderator: and then the radio for our listeners to ask a particular practical problem, it is estimated Jie who have such needs teachers , for example, what kind of returned overseas students will be able to join Western Returned Scholars Association?
Wang Huiyao: not that this threshold is particularly high, we are now in accordance with our standard is more than one year overseas study experience it, if it is out of institutions One year of learning experience, if more than one year students can study abroad experience. in the Western Returned Scholars Association's website has a ready-made form, he needs to be applied for two referrals. Western Returned Scholars Association held a lot of activities, such as our annual Western Returned Scholars Association Chamber of Commerce in Beijing, including many large-scale events held in each of the activities of a New Year Christmas, thousands of people each time, usually held in a lot of forums, the forum held last week came close to three hundred people, are socially oriented, we not only students but also to the open society. I think there should be an interactive platform, we also welcome more students or other Western Returned Scholars hope to the people inside added, the threshold is not too high.
Moderator: Jie who the teacher is still hope, but first you have to go abroad, it seems increasingly younger age of the study, all high school students began to send out. Wang, president what you think about this phenomenon?
Wanghui Yao: I think it might be an inevitable historical development, there is now a factor that push and pull factors, such as one of China's education system, for example, this year we have more than 80 million candidates to give up the college entrance examination, entrance examination which may or cruelty of the shortcomings of this exam-oriented education, so many of our students from middle school to give up to go abroad with learning. On the other hand is relaxed these years abroad, Chinese students attractive force, for example, issued a U.S. visa last year 35,000 visas, which are issued to attract a large number of scholarships to attract domestic students to study abroad, students also do a lot of benefits immigrants, immigrants are Chinese students in Canada open, there are 20,000 places, there are 5,000 applications still dissatisfied, these factors led to a lot of people to study abroad. I think that younger age is indeed a trend, because in the past can get a scholarship, and now there are economic conditions at home later in send out the undergraduate level, such as the ACT test a large number of students increases, I think this is a trend, after the major is to learn how to attract them back, I think this may be the next step to be done.
Moderator: Okay, thank vice president of Western Returned Scholars from China, Mr. Wang Huiyao chatted with us about the return of students, in particular, is very significant problems on the construction of China's think tank, is very grateful to the following, we would like to thank two guests, and finally president and Wang Jie, who wish to teachers, we re-sent blessing to the motherland!
Wanghui Yao: I think the course of one cycle of 60 years, tremendous changes in the initial development of China from the war-torn countries to a world economy today, a large country, and soon we will surpass Japan to become the second largest economic power, I think China reached the entrance to a very great, but we have the hardware light, the light has a lot of the infrastructure is not enough , we have to create our soft power to create our thoughts, create a truly international appeal of our ideas. I think in this sense, we are also more distant the next few years, the road may be difficult to go, I believe China will become the world's influential countries, not only in economic strength, in the ideological and cultural influence can also become a large country, this is the wish of the motherland.
Jie: I think As China and the international community increasingly frequent exchanges, China and the international community contacts, personnel exchanges is getting broader and deeper, which in this communication will be able to make the world's resources for our use, can make a great more prosperous country.
Moderator: Thank you two live guests to participate in our special