Deng -Xping adalah tokoh genius yg membuat TKK negara yg bisa/akan/telah mengalahkan AS dibidang ekonomi dan pendidikan science & technology setelah mengalahkan infrastruktur dimana saja didunia ini. Tentu ada tokoh genius masa modern lainnya yaitu Lee Kuan Yew yg membuat Singapore paling maju di Asia Tenggara. Dulu dikuatirkan terjadinya brain drain dari TKK ke negara2 Barat, terutama ke AS tetapi prediksi Deng betul bahwa reverse brain drain akan terjadi dan benar2 telah mulai dan terjadi.
Quote: Yang Bin, its vice-president, says “the most important moment in the development of Tsinghua” was in 1978, when Deng Xiaoping said China would send larger numbers of students abroad. “We need to send tens of thousands,” Deng said. “This is one of the key ways of…improving our level of scientific education.” Officials worried that few of them would return, but Deng insisted that enough would. He was right. Forty years on, Tsinghua and the country’s other top universities are reaping the rewards. The return flow of highly trained people is gathering pace. The government has provided extra resources to attract them. Tsinghua cannot match the best American packages, but it can offer six-figure dollar salaries—and the opportunity for young parents to bring up their children in their own culture. Qian Yingyi (Columbia, Yale, Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley and subsequently dean of Tsinghua’s school of economics and management) and Shi Yigong (dean of Tsinghua’s school of life sciences; previously at Johns Hopkins and Princeton) are among the star returnees who have transformed the university. “Those intellectuals played a very important role, changing the whole climate, raising standards,” says Mr Yang. BH Jo
