The United States has the most foreign students in the world. Advanced education platform and large numbers of well-known colleges and universities attract tens of thousands of excellent students all over the world. After graduation, most students will face the choice whether working and staying in America or returning to their homelands.
President Obama, whose father was a student from Kenya, clearly know the significance of foreign students to the US. As he said，foreign students is one of the country's "greatest competitive advantages.”In fact, no one could deny what considerable progresses and contributions foreign students have made to the economic development and social prosperity of USA in the past hundred years. Carl Guardino – the CEO of Silicon Valley Leadership Group, said the prosperity of high - technology and the Internet in United States is closely related to the foreign technology talents. Therefore the H-1B is essential to the prosperity of Silicon Valley. According to a survey, 25% of American new technology and engineering companies which found in the past 10 years have at least a founder who was overseas immigrants. This proportion is much higher in Silicon Valley. 53 percent of engineers in the science and technology enterprises in Silicon Valley are from other countries. In Silicon Valley‘s start-up companies, more than half of the Chief Executive Officers are foreign high-tech professionals. Without these foreign engineers, there would be no high-tech companies crowding in the Silicon Valley. High-tech foreign people usually have a great enterprising awareness. Many of them have achieved incredible success, for instance, Yahoo Jerry Yang, Jen-Hsun Huang -- Nvidia CEO, Boolean—one founder of Google and the list will go on. They are from different countries, receiving higher education in US, working hard in Silicon Valley and then founding large businesses which having created a large number of employment opportunities and technological innovation achievements.
As a Chinese, I am very proud of so many Chinese scientists and entrepreneurs’ great achievements for the economic and social development of United States and the far-reaching contributions to the social prosperity. Taking the field of life science as an example, a large number of Chinese life scientists are active in the frontiers of this modern subject. A recent survey indicates that the proportion of Chinese authors is more than 40% in the papers published in top academic journal, such as Science, Nature and Cells. The Nobelist Dr Wiesel, who was born in Sweden and has worked in United States for more than 50 years, puts forwards the idea that there are plenty of excellent Chinese talents studying in US, many of whom have been the leaders of the scientific research field. These Chinese scientists will make a great contribution to world biological development. Bright life resulting from life science is the joint effort of the scientists from different countries.
Some experts and scholars believe that because of the economic crisis in US and the increasingly powerful and prosperous of China, more and more Chinese students will come back to their motherland after graduation. It is a big loss to the US without doubt. Obama said, "one of the great things about this country is we get the best and the brightest talent to study here.” How could he let it slip through his fingers and stand to see his country losing what is one of the greatest competitive advantages? Perhaps in the near future, the H1-B policy will be eased, immigration policy will be reformed in order to attract more foreign students. Just as a New York Times columnist said: "the world's best brains are selling off, let us buy some more."
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