Call for more overseas talents

More effort should be made to attract outstanding overseas talents to work in China, the Ministry of Education said yesterday.

"High-level talents with overseas education and work experience will greatly strengthen China's all-round development, especially as the country is implementing its strategy of invigorating the nation through science, technology and education," Lu Yugang, director of the ministry's talent development office, told China Daily.

The ministry, with the help of other ministries, has increased its financial support for overseas talents and simplified the approval procedure to help them gain "citizen treatment" in China aiming at attracting a group of leading scholars in certain disciplines across the world and forming a group of excellent innovation organizations in China, Lu said.