China’s Thousand Talents Plan to entice researchers home boosted their output

Nature ^

[FarCenter]

Young Chinese scientists who got their PhDs overseas and returned to China as part of a state-run talent drive published more papers after their return than did their peers who stayed abroad. The productivity bump can be explained by returnees’ access to greater funding and an abundant research workforce, according to the authors of an analysis published in Science1. The findings come as geopolitical competition between the United States and China mounts.

In 2008, China began enticing expatriate scientists and foreign researchers to relocate to China through its Thousand Talents Plan, which aims to make the nation a global leader in science and technology.

Despite the programme’s prestige, government agencies in the United States and elsewhere have regarded it with suspicion, because of its potential to increase the flow of technical know-how to China. In 2018, the administration of former US president Donald Trump launched the China Initiative, to protect US laboratories and businesses from espionage. And the same year, the Chinese government stopped publicly naming Thousand Talents Plan recipients because of the negative career impact that the association might have.

The latest study focuses on a branch of the programme — the Young Thousand Talents (YTT) Plan — designed to attract early-career researchers to Chinese research posts. The programme offers researchers generous research packages, including an internationally competitive salary and start-up funds: between 2011 and 2017, when records were still publicly available, it offered grants to more than 3,000 researchers.

[ckilmer]

train them in the USA and then bring them home to fight the USA.

genius’s in the usa let this happen.

[Four of Six]

According to the analyst watched JRE / YouTube, China will no longer be a major player in geopolitics by the year 2030.

He laid out some thought provoking statistics and data, but it’s too complex for me to conclude whether or not China is the fierce economic, military and industrial power the media wants me to believe.

If he’s correct, China will return to being a backwater nation.

[Mlheureux]

OR could be the research they stole to take home?

[nascarnation]

That’s quite interesting.
Since the vaxx is killing everybody, and the US military is likely the most vaxxed group in the world, I figured in a few years the ChiComs could roll up to the US Capitol and somebody would give them the keys.

[magooey]

OR could be the research they stole to take home?

Once their creativity is sparked, they can develop research in whatever part of the world has the resources and the will. The USA is not the only country on Earth.