Three state-funded Chinese institutes have posted job adverts this year targeting Chinese scientists in Britain in a bid to recruit high tech talent.
The institutes, which advertised on the Chinese Embassy website, are looking for candidates for the National Natural Science Foundation’s (NSFC’s) Science Fund Programme for Distinguished Young Scholars (Overseas)—a recruitment and funding scheme similar to the so-called Thousand Talent Plan.
Vacancies are in areas such as marine environmental science and biomedical science to more sensitive fields such as semiconductors and advanced materials, although some technologies used in innocuous areas, such as remote sensing, also have military applications….