Study Abroad Students from China Not Coming Home

Here is part of the missing puzzle of why China has a shortage of local middle to upper management talent in China:

According to statistics from China’s Ministry of Public Security, 2/3 of the approximately one million students who went to study overseas starting in 1980 have not returned to China. This ratio is higher than any other country in the world, and is causing China to face a serious bleeding of talent to other countries.
(translated from this week’s edition of Modern Weekly)

Now why wouldn’t all of these former students want to return to China?

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1. 1|canrun says:
   

   “Now why wouldn’t all of these former students want to return to China?”

   What a bloody rhetorical question, Mr. China sunshine…

2. 2|Niccolo O'Neill says:
   

   This is true, but notice the statistics are basing this since 1980. A significant portion of students from China are still deciding to stay in the United States, but the trend is starting to change, particularly in the engineering and science fields where opportunities are rapidly growing in China. As a result, recently China’s “brain-drain” is beginning to decline and work in its favor.