China trying to attract the world’s top scientific talent

Across China, cities and provinces are seeking researchers, students and innovators — both homegrown and from abroad. In return, they’re offering large sums of money, as well as housing, health care, work for their spouses and other benefits. That’s on top of the generous salaries being offered by universities, and research funding from the central government.In central China, the largely rural county of Gulin in Sichuan province is offering PhD holders a lump sum 300,000 yuan (US $42,000) and a monthly allowance of 1,000 yuan to move there. The city of Taizhou in Zhejiang province will pay university graduates up to 100,000 yuan to resettle to the coastal locale. And Hunan province will provide a sum of up to 1 million yuan to doctoral students who move there from abroad. Recruiting researchers and highly skilled workers is central to China’s push for economic and social development and self-reliance. Do you think that US will lose in the long term /