27,200 Chinese nationals chose to go back to China to work after finishing schooling overseas in 2005 up 47.9% from the previous year according to China's Ministry of Education.
A spokesman for the ministry told a press conference that though China saw a slight
annual increase, (2.1%), of the number of Chinese who went overseas to study at their own expense last year, the number of those who wanted to return has skyrocketed.
Altogether 128,500 Chinese studied abroad in 2005, including nearly 4,000 who had their tuition paid for by the government, some 8,000 sent by their employers, and 106,500 at their own expense, according to statistics from the ministry.
"The booming economy, increasing opportunity to start their own business, and preferential policies for the returned students have drawn more Chinese students home," said Zhang Xiuqin, secretary-general of the China Scholarship Council (CSC) under the ministry.
About 933,400 Chinese have gone overseas to study between 1978 and 2005, and 232,900 have returned, the ministry said.
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