Premier: China to bring in best talents from outside

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-10-18 10:14

BEIJING -- To bring in the best brainpower and scientific talents through opening up is the most important, said Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao in an interview with Bruce Alberts, editor-in-chief of the Science Magazine on September 30.

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In the exclusive interview at the Zhongnanhai leadership compound, Wen said China holds fast the policy of opening up to the outside world.

"The scientists can leap over barriers of ideology and national boundaries to serve all the humanities, so to bring in the best brainpower and scientific talents through opening up is the most important."

Responding to Bruce Alberts' question on how to attract innovative and talented people to work in China, Wen said China will certainly create a good environment for scientists from the outside.

"We will create right conditions for them to develop their careers here, but it is more important to make them feel respected, which requires us to protect their independent creative spirits and intellectual-property rights."