{"id":101996,"date":"2025-05-14T23:10:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T23:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/101996\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T23:10:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T23:10:13","slug":"wanted-china-born-researchers-to-leave-us-to-work-in-china-attractive-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/101996\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanted: China-born researchers to leave US to work in China. Attractive pay"},"content":{"rendered":"

China<\/a> is launching dedicated recruitment programmes to lure Chinese-born researchers<\/a> who are considering leaving the United States<\/a>, a source told the South China Morning Post.The offer comes amid major funding cuts<\/a> and declining academic freedom under the Trump<\/a> administration.Speaking on condition of anonymity, a senior geologist based in Beijing said one of the programmes offered \u201cvery attractive\u201d postdoctoral<\/a> positions designed to appeal to researchers thinking about returning to China<\/a> due to financial and political challenges in the US.\u201cI\u2019ve heard of offers approaching US$100,000 per year for three years,\u201d he said. That level of support was at least double the typical salary of a postdoctoral researcher<\/a>, whether in China or the US, and essentially matched the compensation of an assistant professor, he noted.<\/p>\n

A leading Chinese-American biologist who has worked in the US for decades, and requested not to be named, said many people were \u201cmaking moves\u201d, but were unlikely to go public until their decisions were finalised.<\/p>\n

\"ChineseChinese scientists are returning at a greater rate as the Trump administration brings in funding cuts and exercises greater scrutiny over China-born researchers. Photo: Shutterstock<\/p>\n

China-born scientists in the US have found themselves squeezed from two directions since Donald Trump returned to the White House in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China is launching dedicated recruitment programmes to lure Chinese-born researchers who are considering leaving the United States, a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[3801,1395,47144,47145,32,34,2557,14165,47139,47142,1411,47143,47141,49,1220,978,659,47140],"class_list":{"0":"post-101996","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-beijing","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-china-initiative","11":"tag-chinese-american","12":"tag-donald-trump","13":"tag-emmanuel-macron","14":"tag-european-commission","15":"tag-european-leaders","16":"tag-national-institutes-of-health","17":"tag-national-science-foundation","18":"tag-paris","19":"tag-postdoctoral-positions","20":"tag-south-china-morning-post","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa","25":"tag-vaccine-researcher"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114508714808103595","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}