America has always been proud of its strong scientific research strength, but in recent years, overseas Chinese scientists return to the top, China is narrowing between China and other advanced countries in research capacity on the distance. According to "The New York Times" reported that China is determined to use its ample financial resources, and increasingly elevated status, the loss during the period of reform and opening to attract top scientists and scholars to return home to a U.S. study also pointed out that China's future will be more than the United States the ability to turn research results into products onto the market.

In 2008, the United States, the famous Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Maryland, to the molecular biologist at Princeton University, American Chinese Shi Yigong awarded $ 10,000,000 in research funding.

However, the U.S. academic and not surprised. At that time, Shi Yigong in cell research, research in cancer treatment carried out on a new line of research. His laboratory occupied an entire floor of the building, and access to two million dollars a year in research funding.

However, the surprise and shock that a few months later, the United States by naturalization, residence Shi Yigong 18 years in the United States, the United States to renounce all, returned to China to continue scientific research.

He turned down millions of dollars in research funding, resigned from the position at Princeton University, Tsinghua University, Beijing turned to serving Life Science and Medical Research Institute, and now he has become the College of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Long.

Shi Yigong said, "Today, many people still fail to understand why I will return to China, especially when I'm in this position, I gave up everything."

Princeton professor of physics Robert. Austin (Robert H. Austin), said: "He is one of our star." Phone, he said: "I think this is totally crazy."

The West, especially the United States for many Chinese scholars still have a great appeal. But Shi Yigong and the return of other prominent scientists, a symbol of success in China is narrowing faster in advanced countries in science and technology distance.

Over the past decade, China's investment in research funds are steadily increasing, now accounting for gross domestic product (GDP) of 1.5%. The United States is 2.7% of GDP invested in research on, China's investment is higher than other developing countries.

Two Chinese researchers, according to Dennis Frederick De Ximeng (Denis FredSimon) and Cao Cong recently published "talent and technology advantages of China," a book that overseas Chinese scientists, the face of competition, face even greater pressure.

Over the past decade, the number of academic papers published by scientists, is published each year four times the number of papers. In 2007, the number of papers by Chinese scientists after the United States. Take the emerging nanotechnology research is concerned, there are about 5,000 Chinese scientists to join this.

In 2008, a study by Georgia Institute of Technology, not a decade, China will be more than the United States the ability to turn research results into products and services onto the market.

In recent years, with many of the same name as Shi Yigong scientists began to return to China. Their return with a task: China's scientific and cultural reorganization, change in employment for the parents and the mediocrity of the phenomenon, these are the biggest obstacle to the pursuit of scientific research. Reported that they were driven by patriotism, and they want to be a catalyst for change, and that the Chinese government will support them.

"I feel I owe something to the Chinese." Shi Yigong, 42, said, "In the U.S., almost everything has been established, but in China, no matter what I do, the effects are ten times larger than in the United States or even a hundred times.