Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao meets some veteran
foreign experts and their families at the Great Hall of the People
in Beijing on Feb. 9, 2007, to thank their contributions and say
new year greetings to them.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (R) talks with
a foreign expert during a meeting in Beijing, Feb. 9, 2007. Wen met
some veteran foreign experts and their families at the Great Hall
of the People on Friday to thank their contributions and say new
year greetings to them.
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Chinese premier Wen Jiabao on Friday extended festival greetings
to all foreign experts working in China and expressed gratitude for
their contributions to the country's modernization.
"We cherish and will never forget all the contributions that
foreign experts have made to China's development," said Wen during
a gathering with veteran foreign experts in the Great Hall of the
People nine days before Chinese New Year's day.
Some of the foreign experts attending Friday's gathering have
received the government's "Friendship Award".
Wen said China will stick to the policy of inviting foreign
brains to contribute to the country's development and opening-up
and encouraged government departments to improve the work and
living situation of foreign experts in China.
The central government will fund the introduction of 10,000
economic and technical specialists and 20,000 educational, health
and scientific specialists in 2007, according to the Ministry of
Personnel.
The Chinese mainland has recruited a total of 400,000
specialists from foreign countries, Hong Kong and Macao special
administrative regions and Taiwan, and has dispatched nearly 40,000
qualified personnel to study overseas.
(Xinhua News Agency February 10, 2007)
