Haigui

[2] Possible causes of this reversal include the rising quality of Chinese education institutions and the high salary demands of haigui.

[3] Over 800,000 recently graduated haigui returned to China in 2020, an increase of 70% from 2019, largely due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

[5] According to PRC government statistics, only a quarter of the 1.2 million Chinese people who have gone abroad to study in the past 30 years have returned.

[5] As MIT Sloan School of Management professor Yasheng Huang, an American, states: The Chinese educational system is terrible at producing workers with innovative skills for Chinese economy.

The name was first used by Ren Hong, a young man returning to China as a graduate of Yale University seven years after leaving aboard a tea freighter from Guangzhou to the United States.