How China Is Hoping to Attract Tech Talent

Lauren Good: What is the example of this?

Louis Matsakis: Thus, for example, there were some Chinese dominant who were spreading these conspiracy theories that Indians conspired to use the visa for immigration to China.

Lauren Good: Interesting. You have kept both China’s business and workforce in both years. Was this response surprised for you?

Jei Young: I’ll say yes, but not. No, I know that China was never an immigrant country, so the idea of ​​introducing a lot of foreign talent in the country, providing them with the same priority treatment than the other, it is certainly going to cause some kind of anger from the people. That part I’m sure. The point is that after China tried to open the world for decades at the moment, I was hoping that there would be a little more patience from the Chinese people because China also wanted to be AI leader at this age. And now, they can only look after the model is the United States of America, which is creating a ton of immigrant talent to create the AI ​​industry. So, I was thinking that such principles orientation would impose on the genophobic obstacles we see them, but unfortunately, the situation that seems to have happened cannot be.

Lauren Good: So there are some cultural challenges for this. I mean, do you think that who is trying to get out of this visa and try to attract foreign talent, what are the few challenges that China will face?

Louis Matsakis: I mean, I think the main thing is that China said JE, not the country of immigrants. In 2020, about 0.1% of the mainland population was formed by foreigners, according to an estimate. And it is also worth mentioning that this estimate includes people from Taiwan, Macao and Hong Kong. These are places that are very culturally similar to China. Thus, the number of people from Africa, or North America or Europe is amazingly small than China’s population size. In the United States, about 15% of the people living in this country are immigrants. This is a huge difference. So, I think that new arrivals can be difficult to adjust. This is a solid language. Applications and programs have completely different ecosystems that you need to use. I remember when I first went on a business trip to China, I needed to get the receipt for the expenses and was like me, “Can you email a PDF of my receipt?” And the hotel people looked at me as if I was crazy. And it was like they were, “We’re just going to send it on top of the Weechat.” And I was, “Oh.” There are many small things like this, which is truly different, on the other hand, for the past few decades, American culture and American technology companies were so ubiquitous in other parts of the world, that anyone from India or Europe to the United States, they are probably going to use the same email platforms, the same social media networks. And many rules of business are the same, aren’t you? Of course, there are still cultural differences. And if these people get homesic, they can find an immigrant community wherever they are. They can find food that reminds them of their homes. This is not necessarily the case with China. And so, I think that a city like Shanghai or Beijing is the idea of ​​becoming a true cosmic hub that is a mixture of different cultures, it is something that I think is far from now. I think this can happen and I think it will probably happen because it is a global energy shift that is away from the United States. I think in this age where we are not liked well, and we are not really making a lot of friends around the world, this is certainly possible, but China really starts from a city like San Francisco.