Spatial Character and Backflow Pattern of High-Level Returned Talents in China

Table 3

Spatial structure of top 20 important actors and overseas organizations.

Rank	Return choice			Overseas experience
	Actor	Location	Sum	Actor	Country	City	Sum
1	Peking University	Beijing	160	Harvard University	USA	Boston	82
2	University of Science and Technology of China	Hefei	160	Stanford University	USA	Palo Alto	75
3	Zhejiang University	Hangzhou	159	Massachusetts Institute	USA	Boston	68
4	Tsinghua University	Beijing	157	University of California, Los Angeles	USA	Los Angeles	48
5	Shanghai Jiaotong University	Shanghai	128	University of California, Berkeley	USA	Berkeley	47
6	Nanjing University	Nanjing	105	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore	Singapore	47
7	Fudan University	Shanghai	103	Yale University	USA	New Haven	45
8	SunYat-Sen University	Guangzhou	87	Columbia University	USA	New York	35
9	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	Wuhan	86	National Institutes of Health	USA	Bethesda	34
10	Wuhan University	Wuhan	63	National University of Singapore	Singapore	Singapore	32
11	Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences	Shanghai	61	University of Pennsylvania	USA	Philadelphia	31
12	Tongji University	Shanghai	57	University of Michigan	USA	Michigan	30
13	South University of Science and Technology	Shenzhen	52	University of Hong Kong	China	Hong Kong	26
14	Sichuan University	Chengdu	51	University of California, San Diego	USA	San Diego	26
15	University of Electronic Science and Technology	Chengdu	51	Northwestern University	USA	Evanston	26
16	Xiamen University	Xiamen	47	Purdue University	USA	West Lafayette	25
17	Xi’an Jiaotong University	Xi’an	46	Cambridge University	England	Cambridge	23
18	Suzhou University	Suzhou	39	California Institute of Technology	USA	Pasadena	23
19	Beijing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics	Beijing	38	Los Alamos National Laboratory	USA	Los Alamos	23
20	Tianjin University	Tianjin	36	University of Texas at Austin	USA	Austin	21
Sum			1696				767