Last November, scientist Yan Ning announced that she would leave America and return to China.
Yan Ning is well-known to the Chinese public. She studied at Tsinghua University from1996 to 2000. After that, she studied and worked in America for several years. In 2007, she returned to China and became the youngest professor at Tsinghua University. Ten years later, she left Tsinghua University and became a professor at Princeton University in the US. She was later chosen as a foreign member of the US National Academy of Sciences and a foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Her announcement spread like wildfire and got much attention. Yan Ning said she would resign from Princeton University and help build Shenzhen Medical Academy of Research and Translation in Shenzhen. She called her return to China her third dream.
Yan Ning hopes to offer what she has learned these years. She wants to help and support more young people and make truly original breakthroughs (独创性的突破). She calls Shenzhen a dream city, and plans to build a world-known medical research center there.
In recent years, ★ , thanks to China's efforts in encouraging innovation (创新). In 2021, more than 1, 400 Chinese scientists gave up their jobs in America and returned to China, a 22% increase from the year before. There are also many top scientists who have come back to China from Britain, Japan and other countries.
We welcome the scientists back to China and wish them success.
