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Q: Is there a brain drain going on in China?
Is China just like India, South America, Europe and even Canada? Are all the brightest going and staying in the States?
Yes and no.
Apparently the number of students who go abroadfor studies and come back only amounts to 30 or so percent. So that would indicate that yea, the smart Chinese kids are staying in the States.
But then you have articles like this one from the Times, which show that actually nationalism draws some of the big heads back. Either that or disillusionment with the state of affairs in America.
Granted, it's a little dated, but still interesting. Talks about a high-profile Chinese scientist (naturalized American) in Princeton university who turned down a $10 million research grant to go back and work in Tsinghua university.
of course china have this phenomenon for a long time, since 1980's the top quality human resource keep emigrate to developed country. especially recent decades the higher goverment officers and richer man send their childrens and huge propertys to another country to keep them safety.
Only elites can stay oversees.
That's why I came home and my other friends r coming home as well~ cannot survive there.
Yes and no.
Apparently the number of students who go abroadfor studies and come back only amounts to 30 or so percent. So that would indicate that yea, the smart Chinese kids are staying in the States.
But then you have articles like this one from the Times, which show that actually nationalism draws some of the big heads back. Either that or disillusionment with the state of affairs in America.
Granted, it's a little dated, but still interesting. Talks about a high-profile Chinese scientist (naturalized American) in Princeton university who turned down a $10 million research grant to go back and work in Tsinghua university.
If those people settle in the States, their life is set. Position, salary, routine, etc...
Going back to China offers them the moral option of coming back to aid their homeland, all the while offering them greater freedom to do exactly as they see fit.
Others will just have a profound moral distaste for the direction the States are going in at the moment.
Frankly though, I don't expect a mass 'return-exodus' to China. I think for the most part, the Chinese living in the States are, for now, still quite happy about it.
Trick question?!? Doesn't there need to be something in the sink for it to drain first?!?! 
It's ok, 1000 of them go and 1 foreigner comes, it balances out in the wash... 
I saw a stat once that said 90% of Chinese that go abroad to study never return, is there truth in that?!? I can say so far from my experience teaching here NONE of my students that went abroad have returned to my knowledge...
Yeah, if you look the Chinese government is offering big cash incentives for people to return. "Come over and start a business venture! Of course you'll have to shut up and do what you're told all the time... and you'll indebted to us for the startup money. But yeah, it'll be great!
BTW, Canada hasn't had a brain drain issue in at least a decade.
it is safer to stay outside of china, if you are a smart person that means you think independently and openly. so the "accept what i tell you or else i'll lock you up" policy would keep me away look at the artist "i way way"
well i guess they can borrow more money for the salaries, good luck with that.
precisely. this is why the reforms didnt really help china
