The 580,000 Chinese students going abroad for study since reform
and opening-up over two decades ago are precious wealth for China,
said Chinese President Hu Jintao in Beijing Tuesday.
These students should inherit the fine traditions of the older
generation of Chinese students studying overseas, and carry forward
patriotism and hard-working, daring and pioneering spirit and
integrate their personal ideals with the motherland's future and
destiny.
Hu, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC)
Central Committee, made the remarks while meeting with delegates to
a conference commending outstanding returned overseas students.
Approximately 160,000 Chinese students returned home after their
study abroad, Hu said, acknowledging that they have made splendid
contributions for China's prosperity and development.
The CPC Central Committee always attaches great importance to
the Chinese students studying abroad, he said, and the construction
of the "Xiaokang" (a relatively prosperous) society in an all-round
way offers lots of valuable opportunities for students abroad and
also sounds a new call to them to return to work for the service of
the motherland.
CPC committees and governments at all levels should keep
improving their policies and measures with regard to these returned
students in a bid to build a still better environment for their
work and development, and to enable them to score more achievements
and give scope to their enthusiasm and creativeness, the president
said.
(Xinhua News Agency October 1, 2003)