Recruiting in China

Beijing is working to entice some of the talented Chinese people working overseas to return home.

The municipal government has established a program to assist overseas Chinese who are under 55 years of age, have obtained a PhD overseas, and can work in Beijing for more than six months a year.

Professors in famous overseas universities and research institutions and those who are employed as senior managers in well-known multi-national companies are the key targets of the program.

Beijing's goal for 2009 is to attract between 30 and 50 of these types of people back from overseas.