Overseas Chinese heading home

SHANGHAI: High numbers of Chinese studying overseas are expected to return here over the next two years, as jobs abroad become harder to find, an official said on Sunday.

Speaking at a forum, Mengyu, secretary-general of the Shanghai Overseas Returned Scholars' Association (SORSA) said that between 1978 and the end of last year, 70,000 Chinese returned to Shanghai after completing their studies abroad.

They accounted for about 25 percent of all returnees nationwide, he said.