Grants to lure native talent back to China_美文

Grants to lure native talent back to China

With funding provided by the academy, Pan set up a laboratory and research team in Urumqi, the region's capital. "The equipment and instruments are just as good as what I used abroad, and it feels good to work in my own country," he said, adding he has a sense of belonging that he lacked abroad.

Apart from providing good conditions for scientific research, the Chinese Academy of Sciences also works on guaranteeing basic living conditions.

Deng Maicun, secretary-general of the academy, said in addition to the settlement allowance, the academy has the 3H Project, which aims to relieve overseas experts' housing and health concerns and give them a feeling of being at home.

Deng said the project allows most of the overseas experts who work in the academy to buy homes, helps to enroll their children in school, and ensures medical insurance covers most expenses if they get sick.

Chen Yu'ao, who was selected for the One Thousand Talents Program and returned with a PhD from Germany's University of Heidelberg in 2011, said with the settlement fee offered by the Organization Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, as well as the University of Science and Technology of China, where he now works as a professor, he is able to pay half of his housing loan.

The 32-year-old, who is also a researcher with a physics lab in Shanghai, said compared with most people his age, he is lucky because the mortgage is not heavy, so he can concentrate on scientific research.