You are using a Minority Case to Prove for the Majority.
Your Example: Qian Xuesen - He Was Born and Raised in China, Studying and Working in the US, Then returned to China. It Is Not Similar To The US Issue, Where millions of Immigrants and many scientists and engineers around the ưorld move into the United States Every Year. It is Absolute Difference in Quantity and Quality.
- Qian Xuesen is the reason China should also receive millions of immigrants from the Middle East, South Asia, Africa, south America... like US?
- Qian Xuesen is the reason China should also receive the so-called "global talent" around the world like the US?
I am not against immigrants or global talents. I oppose the idea that China should receive immigrants and global talents with large quantities like the United States.
Finally, this is my article.
1. I do not deny the role of immigrants and global talents.
2. I am talking about the macro level.
Here is the thing. Like any HR would tell you, you don't know how someone will work out in your company until they start, cause everything they say in the interview is BS. You don't get to cherry pick all the guys that work out. For every success, you will probably have 50 duds and like 49 guys no better than the guys you replaced them with. In areas where China is behind or focused in, there is every reason to recruit experienced, talented individuals. I mean, aint that what the likes of Huawei and co are doing? offering scholarships in the universities. Having just a couple of those top guys will have way more impact than ten thousand ordinary clogs. i.e. if you do the same thing everyday, why would you expect different result?
Also, China's social security system and salary level isn't the same as Europe or US or Australia. It isn't going to attract those talents unless it goes out of its way to head hunt them.
Third, have you tried getting a work visa for China recently? I can tell you that its a bitch, harder than Japan or the US. You get your whole family line questioned and education validated, along with the usual company sponsorship and co. There aint no way its gonna get the numbers like in the US.
When we were growing up, China was poor, and we migrated to countries like Japan, US, Australia, UK to work and get ahead in life. The likes of Japan accepted us because the jobs we took were mostly menial jobs that the locals don't want, but some one has to do. Today, most of those positions have been replaced by people from Philippines, India, or Vietnamese or other 3rd world countries, while China is moving into similar positions like Japan etc back then. Eventually when the West and central China is rejuvenated, it'll run out of people wanting to do those crap jobs too. I don't see it as too far fetched for African/South East Asian/South American/ work force to end up in China working in those jobs, especially the countries in belt and road, having had contacts with Chinese companies abroad or trained by those Luban institutes etc. I also don't see why Chinese companies by then wouldn't offer residency etc for the good guys who wants to settle in China. End of the day, they will still be tiny minorities in China given how many ladders they have to climb, and makes for excellent cultural ambassadors and soft power projection. The second generation too, I mean, look at the success enjoyed by 2nd generation Chinese in the west in all the fields.
I waffle on a bit, but current economic climate and language barriers dictates that even if China wanted to, it won't be able to attract a million immigrant like the US, but the system allows it to filter to a much higher degree than the US. There is going to be a need for top of the class, and also a need for pawns in the future.
