Gu Zhijie, former researcher at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, is another beneficiary. In the summer of 2016, he received five million yuan (around 770,000 U.S. dollars) of support funds from east China's Zhejiang Province, and thus returned to China to start a business in photoelectric conversion materials.

"You can't get such favorable entrepreneurial conditions in Japan," he said.

According to Kuang Jianjiang, an educational secretary at the Embassy of China in Britain, the CPC Central Committee's growing emphasis on talent over the five years is the root cause to such an influx of returnees.

It was a similar case for returned job hunters.

"A lot of headhunting companies favor overseas graduates, especially for finance jobs," said Wang Yuxuan, a graduate of the University of Miami and a data analyst in Shanghai, who admitted that regardless of the policies, returnees do boast advantages in some cases.

The CCG survey showed that the top three advantages of overseas-educated graduates lie in their international perspective, foreign languages and cross-culture communication. Wang said factors such as career fairs and details including his dress code from life abroad are what helped him most in his career.

"They helped me a lot with my transition from campus to office," he said. "That was why I could get into form immediately after taking the job."

For some, however, both returnees and local governments could make improvements in work readiness.

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