On the Policy of Attracting the Intellectual Resources of the Chinese Diaspora to the PRC

The article analyzes the Chinese experience in attracting talented people from abroad. author focuses on question of how foreign specialists' programs enabled People’s Republic China (PRC) to attract back mainly emigrants (华侨 huaqiao) as well ethnic who held passports (华人 huaren) rather than nationals. offers historical background for work PRC leaders dealt with specialists between 1949–1977. It also deals regulatory framework policy foreigners during years reform and opening up (from 1978 until present). concludes: legal framework, which underlied abroad, first instance was oriented huaqiao huaren opposed similar qualifications. Programs graduates universities are focused huaqiao.