HR seen as key to profit from firms' investments abroad

Some 87 percent of Chinese companies going global failed to reach their annual profit targets - and Li Xiangyang, 39, a construction engineer, might know why.

Chinese human resources deployed abroad are not utilized well, which has a negative impact on the operational and financial performance of the companies concerned, he said.

Li said if he were given a chance to turn the clock back 10 years, he would probably choose not to work abroad at all.