China’s labor force is becoming increasingly more urban, skilled, educated, generally more talented, and more “global.” Companies have already begun hiring Chinese nationals for roles in China that were once reserved for the foreign expatriate, and what’s more, they’re employing Chinese nationals abroad. Chinese nationals are sent on international assignments. They are sent abroad to acquire managerial skills, technical expertise, or receive training. For all the reasons that expatriates from other countries are generally sent abroad, Chinese nationals are becoming increasingly more global. Shanghai-based IES professionals Dawn Foo and Wayne Soontiraratn observe that this increased mobility and growing presence in the global labor market create issues and challenges for Chinese mobile employees, their employers, and governmental authorities.
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