Liaoning targets returning students

Students returning from overseas studies are being urged to launch businesses along the Liaoning Coastal Economic Belt as part of a special promotional week, organized by local authorities in the region.

Billed as the "Overseas Chinese Scholars Liaoning (Dalian) Week", the initiative was launched on October 22 in the Dalian High-tech Industrial Zone. It is the tenth time that the province has staged the event, which this year is aimed at returning high-end professionals.

Under guidelines laid down for the project, Liaoning will give priority to the development of a number of key industries over the next five years. It has sub-divided its efforts on the basis of "tens, hundreds and thousands."