Chinese students trained abroad are no longer in the odor of holiness

Following the article published last week, we continue to explore the upheavals in the Chinese labor market.

We are pleased to present a second article by Xavier, this time devoted to the difficulties of Chinese students returning from abroad.

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In China, le terme « haigui – (Returnees) is a neologism that refers to students returning to China after graduating from a foreign university.. The National Information Commission in China (National Information Center) indicates in a recent report that the number of freshly graduated overseas students awaiting return to China exceeded one million for the first time in 2021, which represents approximately 84 % international Chinese students. By way of comparison, the returns only concerned 79% Chinese international students in 2016. The pandemic crisis has therefore marginally reinforced this phenomenon of the return of haigui in mainland China. Three quarters of Chinese international students express the wish to return to China in order to seize the many professional opportunities offered by their country. But the pandemic has changed the game : she has, Firstly, complicated return trips to China due to the country's lockdown, and on the other hand had the effect of modifying the immediate needs of the labor market in China.