A year has passed. During this period, China introduced many "returnees", but there is also a prominent problem: the "survival rate" is low. Recently, Roche Consulting, an American executive evaluation agency, found through investigation that the "survival rate" of talents who returned to China from the United States was less than 50%, and a considerable number of managers chose to leave after joining the enterprise for half a year or even less.
Since the global financial crisis spread last year, official and semi-official overseas talent recruitment groups from all over China have successively gone to the United States, Canada and other countries to launch a "talent competition". However, it is a pity that although some governments, universities and enterprises continue to adopt new policies and measures to ensure the scientific research, teaching and life of returnees, more than half of them still cannot "survive". Some "returnees" even lamented that how can they achieve something abroad and it is difficult to make a difference at home?
Recently, Professor Wadhwa of Harvard University also made a similar sigh. In a research report of the Kaufman Foundation, which he presided over, he said: "In my research, I noticed that the R&D and innovation departments in China rely heavily on returned students, but they don't seem ready to accept risks and challenge the tradition. China people in the United States contributed 65,438+06.8% of American patents, and the number of these China people was less than 65,438+0% of the American population. Why didn't China people achieve such success in China? Why are returnees more creative than local talents? These may be issues that China needs to think about. "
"I'm not good at filling out forms. “
After coming back for three years, there is still no outstanding scientific research achievement, which makes Qu Bin, who studied in Germany and obtained a doctorate in engineering, hesitate. "I always feel that life is not energetic, and there are some things I want to do but I can't."
Three years ago, Qu Bin, who had studied and worked in Germany for eight years, returned to his motherland and set up camp in a university in Shanghai. "The treatment given by the school is also good. From research funding to office space, there are also discounts on buying a house. From these aspects, it is still possible. " However, perhaps compared with foreign experience, Qu Bin still feels that there are many areas that need to be improved.
Qu Bin said that when he was in Germany, many daily tasks were handled by the special administrative secretary of the teaching and research section. As a researcher, he mainly focuses on this subject. However, after returning to China, he found that he had to face a lot of forms, apply for projects, check teaching and complete projects, and he always felt endless. "I'm not good at filling out forms, and I won't fill out forms with cliches and empty words. It's really a headache. "
What puzzles Qu Bin even more is that he wants to hire a full-time administrative secretary. Later, he found that in China, ordinary professors don't have this privilege. Unless they are imported "big-name" professors, academicians or similar high-level talents, the laboratory can only be equipped with an administrative secretary if it reaches a certain scale. "Because it involves issues such as preparation, it will not be considered in the future."
However, in addition to these daily work, Qu Bin also met with troubles, and he also felt many restrictions on research funds. At present, Qu Bin's scientific research funds are not very high, and are basically in an adequate state. But "his own ideas or expected goals are difficult to achieve, because some experimental conditions and large-scale experimental equipment can not meet the requirements, and there is not enough money to buy." Although Qu Bin doesn't have a lot of money at hand now, it's not easy to spend money. "There are many restrictions, this one won't work, and that one won't work."
In addition, Qu Bin said with emotion: "In foreign countries, the living environment is good and there are rules to follow. After returning home, I feel that my style is changeable and it is difficult to adapt to this environment. But to make a difference, it seems that I must adapt to this environment. "
"'returnees' should be smart people"
"I have a lot of' returnees' friends around me who are similar to my age. When it comes to entrepreneurship, many people say that it is the family that affects their entrepreneurial mentality the most. "
The person who said the above sentence is Ke Xiangnan, who went to Portugal to study 20 years ago and is now the president of a biotechnology company in Changzhou. When talking about returning to China to start a business, he said emotionally: "The older generation of international students live better overseas. They have a career, a house and a car, but they may not feel happy. In the circle of international students I have contacted, 80% of them want to come back, and the idea of' seeking roots' in China is innate to some extent. " When talking about the difficulties encountered in starting a business, he said that only when life is adapted can the mentality be leveled and adjusted, and entrepreneurship can be guaranteed. For older "returnees", the first problem to be solved when returning to China to start a business is actually life.
Ke Xiangnan said with regret: "Although some old' returnees' have returned to China by themselves, their families have not yet returned to China completely, and their wives and children are abroad. Being alone makes it easier for them to retreat in the face of difficulties and setbacks. The material support of' returnees' entrepreneurship is indispensable, and the spiritual pillar is even more indispensable. One of them is the scaffold, the other is the soul. The problem of family placement for returnees needs to be solved urgently. "
In addition, because some returnees have lived overseas for many years, their understanding of China's national conditions has gradually faded, and it is easy for them to fall into an embarrassing situation that deviates from the market demand and runs counter to the national conditions when starting a business, which often becomes a serious injury in the process of starting a business. However, the inability to integrate into the cultural atmosphere of modern China and to handle the interpersonal and social relations around them is another hidden pain of returnees, which leads to a low survival rate of returnees.
"Returnees should be smart people. After returning to China, they should quickly adapt to the atmosphere here and learn to deal with team members, workers, the market, the government and the media ... returnees who can't coordinate various social relations can't live. " Ke Xiangnan said frankly.
Death in infancy.
At present, many development zones, high-tech zones and even universities have launched overseas student pioneer parks. However, due to the lack of a complete scientific project evaluation mechanism and effective financing channels, the survival rate of many "returned overseas enterprises" is very low, and many enterprises are struggling.
Chen Bingran, a German "returnee" who returned to China in 2006 and founded a photoelectric system company in Suzhou Industrial Park, suddenly left his job after three years of entrepreneurship. The main reason for this situation is the difficulty in financing. When interviewed by reporters, Chen Bingran said helplessly: "My enterprise is a large enterprise that can achieve 200 million yuan. However, capital investment is needed, but there is no way to borrow. At present, it is even more difficult to borrow 5 million yuan in China. "
Indeed, in China, there are many "returnees" like Chen Bingran who can't get loans. Without timely supply from relevant departments, they died in infancy.
China has adopted an encouraging and even tolerant attitude in using overseas talents, especially high-level talents. Since the knowledge and talents of overseas students are crucial to the scientific, educational and economic development of China, we warmly welcome professionals and scholars with permanent residency abroad or even foreign nationality. China has also begun to issue permanent residence permits to foreigners working and doing business in China, so that they can enjoy national treatment, such as applying for venture capital, educating their children, buying real estate and social welfare.
However, these policies are often not universal and continuous.
It can be said that on the one hand, China has made great efforts to attract "returnees", on the other hand, there are some unsatisfactory aspects in supporting "returnees".
In this regard, lawyer Duan Qihua, a member of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, pointed out in an interview that, first of all, governments at all levels should set up coordination agencies to serve overseas returnees and earnestly safeguard their legitimate rights and interests. In order to help solve the problems and difficulties encountered by returnees in their daily lives, the coordination agency is responsible for establishing a unified, authoritative, convenient, efficient, informative and accurate comprehensive information database of overseas returnees. Provide returnees with preferential policies, employment guidance, technology development and other information they need, and at the same time provide domestic enterprises with a database of "returnees" talents to strive for a win-win situation; Secondly, we should abolish some current unreasonable rules and regulations in time, formulate an evaluation system and a selection and appointment mechanism that are in line with international standards, gradually break the restrictions on identity, household registration and academic qualifications, eliminate institutional obstacles to the flow of talents, create an unrestricted and "zero-obstacle" flow environment, and fully realize the value of "returnees" talents.
We can't make promises when introducing them, but after introducing them, we will "become one of our own" and no longer pay attention to them. System construction is more conducive to the return of talents than lip service. Perhaps, the establishment of a systematic and perfect policy of returning to China will have a great impact on the independent innovation of China enterprises and even the smooth implementation of the development strategy of an innovative country.