How China hopes to attract technical talent
Lauren Good: What is an example of it?
Louise Matsakis: For example, there were some Chinese influential that distributed the conspiracy theories that the Indians intended to use the visa to immigrate to China extensively.
Lauren Good: Interestingly you have covered China’s jobs and workforce for many years. Was this surprise to you?
Zeyi Yang: I say yes but no. Not because I know that China has never been an immigrant country, so the idea of introducing many foreign talents to the country, giving them a preferential behavior, will certainly create some kind of anger. I am sure that I feel that after China has tried to open the world for decades at this stage for decades, I was expecting to be a little more patience than the Chinese people because China wants to be an artificial intelligence leader at this age. And now, the only model they can take care of is the United States built to build an artificial intelligence industry with a ton of immigrants. So, I thought that maybe that kind of policy orientation would lead to the barriers to the zenophobic we see, but unfortunately the situation that seems to have happened is that it cannot.
Lauren Good: So there are some cultural challenges for this. I mean, do you think some of the other challenges that China will face, because it tries to destroy this K visa and attract foreign talents?
Louise Matsakis: I mean, I think the main point is that China, like Zeyi, is not completely a country of immigrants. According to one estimate, in 2020 only about 0.1 % of the main population of foreigners was formed. It is also worth noting that this estimate includes people from Taiwan, Macau and Hong Kong. These are places that are culturally similar to China. Therefore, the number of people coming from Africa, North America or Europe is amazingly small compared to the size of the Chinese population. In the United States, about 15 % of people living in this country are immigrants. This is a big difference. So, I think the new entry set can be hard. This is a difficult language. There is a completely different ecosystem of applications and applications that you should use. I remember the first time I went to a business trip to China I needed to get my own costs and liked “Can you email me a PDF of my receipt?” And the hotel people were looking at me as I was crazy. And they were like that, “We just want to send it through WeChat.” And I was like “Oh”. There are many small things like that that are really different, while for decades, American culture and technology companies have been very popular around the world, who comes from India or Europe to the United States, probably using the same email operating systems, the same social media networks. And many of the commercial norms are similar, right? There are still cultural differences. And if these people become housewives, they can find an immigrant community wherever they are. They can find food that reminds them of home. This is not necessarily in China. And so, I think an urban idea like Shanghai or Beijing is a really home -made center that is a combination of different cultures, something I think is really far away. I think this may happen, and I think it is likely to happen as a global power change from the United States. I think in this period when we don’t make good choices, and we don’t really make many friends around the world, it is certainly possible, but China just starts from a different place like San Francisco.
