Policies to motivate overseas students to return

China will roll out more incentives for overseas Chinese students to return to start their own businesses and make innovations, a State Council executive meeting chaired by Premier Li Keqiang decided on Wednesday.

Measures will be introduced to simplify certification requirements and procedures at local levels and to make it easier for overseas Chinese students to obtain hukou, the government system of household registration for urban residency. Favorable policies concerning the schooling of returnees' children will be implemented without delay, it was decided at the meeting.

Li said a considerable number of Chinese students each year choose to return home to engage in innovation and entrepreneurship after completing academic studies overseas.