Scientists from China in the United States are returning to China. They are from top universities in China. Why did they choose to come back?

In order to attract scientific research talents back to China, it is well known that our country has made great efforts in investment in scientific research, generous salary and complete laboratories. Scientists selected to return to China also talked about other key factors, including China's gradual prosperity, being closer to relatives in space, narrowing the gap between the two countries' scientific level, the increasing difficulty for the United States to obtain scientific research funds, and bottlenecks encountered in its operation. Although female researchers feel less sexist in the United States than in China, some scientists feel that they are not welcome in the United States. Han Ting showed that this wave of returning to China "is largely synchronized with the Trump administration coming to power."

What worries many China researchers in the United States is that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has added an inspection to those scientists who have obtained undisclosed funding sources from countries outside the United States or have connections with organizations in other countries, and this move is especially aimed at China scientists.

20 1 1 Isabella Xu, who graduated from Tsinghua University and is now a postdoctoral fellow at Boston Children's Hospital, said, "It is not uncommon for researchers to get research funds from other countries. If it is assumed that a certain share of foreign scholars in the United States have not truthfully declared the source of funds, it is somewhat strange to select and query only a certain group of people in a particular country.

Ma Yingyi, a sociology professor at Syracuse University, discussed the flow of international students. She believes that the Trump administration's "hate" policy can explain why the proportion of returned students "has been expanding in the past few years". "We all realize that the current government is not very friendly to immigrants," Ma Yingyi said. "All kinds of words and the overall atmosphere make outsiders a little worried."