Overseas returnees still have key role to play

CHINESE RETURNING HOME after graduating from universities overseas have played crucial roles in multinational corporations in China, using their understanding of both Chinese and foreign culture to help the international companies' localization. Beijing Youth Daily comments:

Almost all large-scale multinational ventures in China employ returnees. Some of the returnees are senior executives and have promoted foreign investment in China as well as China's integration into the global market.

That some foreign enterprises think China's investment and the quality of its business environment have declined is a misperception, and the senior-executive returnees in foreign enterprises should take the initiative to inform their companies of China's latest reform and opening-up moves, so as to better consolidate their employers' confidence in China.