Academy to hike foreign hires

The Chinese Academy of Sciences will beef up the number of foreign researchers it uses, as part of a move to promote internationalization for the next five years.

The academy released a reform outline on Tuesday, saying that foreign researchers will account for 3 percent of all academy researchers, up from 1 percent currently, until 2020.

The academy now has 56,000 researchers (excluding postdoctorate and visiting scholars).