Over 4 lakh Chinese students returned from abroad in 2015

BEIJING: Over 4 lakh Chinese students returned from overseas after graduating in 2015, an official said today.

A total of 409,100 returned taking that total of returned Chinese students to over 2.21 million so far, Tang Tao, vice minister of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security said.

China at present has 321 industrial parks where returned overseas students can start their own businesses, housing 24,000 enterprises, Tang said.

The vice minister said China will improve measures to persuade Chinese students to return home in 2016, including better public services and projects such as the "Thousand Talents" recruitment program for global experts launched in 2008.

A multi-ministerial meeting system was created in 2003, ordered by the State Council, to assist returned overseas Chinese students.