This book offers the most comprehensive, up-to-date assessment of China's domestic and international migration. Restructuring economic development requires large numbers of educated and skilled talents, but this effort comes at a time when the size of China's domestic workforce is shrinking. In response, both national and regional governments in China have been keen to encourage overseas Chinese talents and professionals to return to the country. Meanwhile, the Chinese government has initiated a number of policies to attract international highly-skilled talents and enhance the country's competitiveness, and some Chinese policies have started attracting foreign talents, who are coming to the country to work, and even to stay. Since Chinese policies, mechanisms, and administration efforts to attract and retain skilled domestic or overseas talents are helping to reshape China's economy and are significantly affecting the cooperation on migration and talent mobility, these aspects, in addition to being of scholarly and research interest, hold considerable commercial potential.

Dr. Huiyao Wang is the Founder and President of Center for China and Globalization (CCG) and the Dean of Institute of Development of South Western University of Finance and Economics. The Chinese Premier appointed him as a Counselor of China State Council. He is the Vice Chairman of the China Association for International Economic Cooperation Association in the Ministry of Commerce. Dr. Wang is a member of Migration Advisory Board of the International Organization of Migration (IOM), United Nation. He is also an advisor of Yale University Asia Development Council, a member of the advisory board of Richard Ivey School of Business in Asia, a Steering Committee Member of Metropolis International and an advising member to the board of the Association of Executive Search Consultants in New York. Dr. Wang was a Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School and was a visiting fellow at Brookings Institution. He has published over 70 books and 100 articles and papers on Chinese global talent and migration, returned scholars, students' study abroad and the overseas diaspora. His latest English books include International Migration of China: Status, Policy and Social Responses to the Globalization of Migration (Springer), Reverse Migration in Contemporary China (Palgrave Macmillan), as well as Entrepreneurship and Talent Management from a Global Perspective: Global Returnees (Edward Elgar), and Globalizing China: The Influence, Strategies and Successes of Chinese Returnee Entrepreneurs (Emerald). Dr. Lu Miao is the Deputy Director General of the International Writing Center of Beijing Normal University. She is also the Co-founder & Secretary General of the Center for China and Globalization (CCG), the largest Chinese nongovernment think tank with nearly 100 full-time researchers and staff. CCG has been ranked among top 10 think tanks and No.1 nongovernment think tank in China by University of Pennsylvania Think Tank and Civil Society Program. Dr. Miao is also the Secretary General of China Global Talent Society as well as China Western Returned Scholars Association Policy Advisory Committee. Dr. Miao got her PhD degree on Contemporary Chinese Studies from Beijing Normal University and was a visiting scholar at New York University and Harvard University. She is a co-author of many Chinese Social Science Academy Blue Books and Chinese Social Science Foundation's research project reports. Moreover, Dr. Miao has written books which have described Chinese outbound business and global talent. Indeed, her latest books include International Migration of China: Status, Policy and Social Responses to the Globalization of Migration (Springer), Global Think Tanks which is the best seller on the subject in China, as well as China Goes Global: How China's Overseas Investment is Transforming its Business Enterprises (Palgrave Macmillan).