In the 14th Guangzhou Convention of Overseas Chinese Scholar in Science and Technology (OCS) recently held in Guangzhou, Li Yuanchao and Wang Yang, both are members of Politburo of the CPC Central Committee in China, sent sincerely welcome signal to the world and invite top foreign talents from the world to work in China. Guangzhou OCS has been a large scale of communication and exchange platform for China to attract high-level overseas talents. In the past 10 years, over 300,000 foreign experts chose to work in China. Many of them are from international high-level research institutions, multinational enterprises and have achieved world awards because of their academic contribution. Over hundreds of foreign experts from the US, Great Britain, Russia, Japan, Ukraine and etc participated in the Guangzhou OCS this year.

Director General of Center for China and Globalization (CCG) Dr. Huiyao Wang also attended the Opening Ceremony of the 14th Guangzhou OCS as well as the High-level Foreign Talents Roundtable. CCG also recommended ten high-level foreign experts to be invited to attend this seminar with Li Yuanchao and Wang Yang.

CCG Held the 2011 China Global Talents Conference

During the OCS, CCG also held The 2011 China Global Talents Conference successfully on 19th December, 2011 in Guangzhou, China. Hundreds of experts, scholars and overseas returnees from more than ten countries and regions have submitted around 40 academic papers to the conference committee. This conference aims to promote the exchanges among global talents and discuss the topic of global talent and the development of overseas high-level talents in China as well as corresponding human resource policies.

Sponsored by OCS, this international conference is organized by CCG and supported by Overseas Experts Advisory Committee of State Council Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of, Returned Overseas Students and Experts Service Center of Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security of the P.R.C., Center on China Transnational Relations Research of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship of Guanghua Management School of Peking University and Overseas Chinese Research Institute of Zhongshan University.

The Conference Opening was chaired by Dr. Huiyao Wang, Director General of Center for China and Globalization and Vice Chair of China Western Returned Scholars Association. Mr. Decun Zhan, Director of Committee Office of Guangzhou Convention of Overseas Chinese Scholars in Science and Technology, Mr. Dong Zhang, Talent Division Deputy Director of Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, Mme. Jianqing Zhang, Director of Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of State Council and Mr. Wenfeng Xia, Director of Overseas Returned Scholars Service Center of Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security provided opening remarks. Mr. Zhan commented the importance of this conference to introducing high-level talents and governments need the recommendations to improve talents affairs. Mr. Dong Zhang said China has been actively undertaking opportunities and challenges resulting from talents globalization, and observed numerous excellent talents. Influenced by the Thousands Talents Program, China has already introduced about 1,600 talents and obtained many talents success. Mme. Zhang from the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of State Council highly praised the importance of this conference and said that it would enhance the understanding about talents development strategies and policies through this conference. Mr. Xia also highly praised that this conference gathers world top scholars and overseas talents and can help exchanges and cooperation among world scholars.

This conference discusses issues relating to talent development in globalization era; the global talent movement, development and trends; China's global talent and returnee entrepreneurs development in China; migration policy and the experience of other countries in attracting and retaining the talents; and new culture, new talent and their roles on innovation and globalization for China and so on through Keynote Speech and Panel Discussions.

The last section of this conference is Round Table Group Discussion. Politician leaders, Chinese and Foreign experts and scholars, overseas high-level talents, successful returned entrepreneurs and representatives from high-tech business incubators attended this section and made recommendations. Participants including: Dr. Jingzhou Tao (Partner of Dechert LLP, Beijing Office), Dr. Charles Z. Liu (General Manager of China Business, Research In Motion Limited (BlackBerry)), Dr. Zhiyun Tu (Chairman and CEO of 51Credit.com), Mr. Zhijian Li (Chairman and CEO of BizDao Consulting Co., Ltd), Dr. Shanyu Cao (Associate Professor of Overseas Chinese Research Institute, Zhongshan University), Mr. Jianying Wu (Deputy Director of Specialists Management Division, Deputy Director of Special Office for Attracting Oversea Talents, Ministry of Human Resource and Social Security), Mr. Jianfei Zhang (Director of Department of Returning Experts and Students, Division of Specialists Management, Ministry of Human Resource and Social Security), Mr. Jun Liu (Deputy Director-General of Organization Dep. of CPC Nanjing Municipal Committee, Director-General of Nanjing Talents Affairs Office), Mr. Weipeng Wu (Deputy Director General of Suzhou Technology Bureau, Deputy Director General of Personnel Office of Suzhou Municipality), Mr. Yongjie Xie (Director General of Wuxi 530 Entrepreneur Service Center), Mr. Dongdong Gu (Secretary-General of Overseas Returnees Center, Human Resource Association of Zhejiang Province), Mme. Wei Huang, Vice Chief of Human Talent Bureau, Dongguan Municipal Government), Dr. Jiayi Liang (Director of Overseas Students Pioneer Park of Dongguan Songshan Lake), Mme. Xiaowan Zhang (Chief of Heifei Municipal Foreign Experts Bureau), Dr. Na Liu (Office Head of High-level Talent, Human Resource Department, Tianjin University) and etc.

This is the first international conference in China focusing on global talent research and discussion and also on Chinese overseas high-level talents. This conference can facilitate the communication and cooperation between scholars and experts between different countries and further promote global talent exchange between China and other countries as well as corresponding policy of talent development in China.

Recently, Dr. Huiyao Wang, Director General of Center for China and Globalization, and Dr. Jiangyong Lu, Associate Professor of Guanghua School of Management, Peking University jointly wrote a book, namely Researches on Collaboration and Comparison between Chinese Returnee Enterprises and Local Enterprises. This book has been published by Peking University Press in December 2011.

This book applies the updated data and information, by using a comparative point of view to explain the cooperation between Chinese returnee enterprises and local enterprises, has contributed to fill the gap of the studies of this area. The publishing of this book aims to make policy makers to better understand the needs of high-level overseas talents and further help them to fully play their role.

This book examines the literature on the returnee phenomena and assesses the impact and influence of Chinese Returnee Entrepreneurs. This is the first major empirical study to evaluate the impact of CREs in the Chinese globalization process. It examines the roles, drivers, strategies, and performances of CREs on environment-strategy linkages in a strong emerging economy. The research highlights the significance of strategies, drivers, constraints, and performance relations for CREs success in shaping their operational framework in China. This book has been published by Emerald Group Publishing Limited in spring of 2012.

The findings of this study suggest that CREs have become a driving force in Chinese globalization, dominating the internet, IT and media industries. They have become leading players in the Chinese high-tech industries, as well as the best team players and social capital users of international relationship. The study reveals that CREs competitive advantages lie in their strategies utilizing technology, team work, market approach, social connections, professional qualifications, and international working experience.

Entrepreneurial and Business Elites of China: The Chinese Returnees Who Have Shaped Modern China

This book provides up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of top overseas returnees who have made noteworthy contributions to the Chinese economy since the reform era began. These elites are the men and women who mattered, both in the early years when returnee migration was rare, and in recent years where it has become much more prominent. Understanding the stories of the entrepreneurial and business elites is an important step for understanding the international migration force overall. This book has been published by Emerald Group Publishing Limited in May 2011.