China greatly loosens visa restrictions for STEM degree holders

[thewayne]

GREATLY loosens! Even people with just Bachelor degrees are potentially eligible - and freshly-minted ones at that! If the degree is in robotics, AI, or new materials - and even if you don't have a job-offer from a Chinese company - you might be able to waltz into China and start marketing yourself.

This includes teachers in these subjects.

The Nature article is partially paywalled.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03657-6

https://slashdot.org/story/25/11/11/1857233/chinas-new-scientist-visa-is-a-serious-bid-for-the-worlds-top-talent

Comments

[motodraconis]

Well, maybe they have spotted a trend in the US. A recent Gallop poll cites that 40% of women of childbearing age in the US would leave if they could, even never to return. More men than before would like to move too, but the number of women is shocking. (Though not surprising, I personally would feel very unsafe to be a woman of child bearing age in the US, on top of feeling unsafe in general.)

Obviously, moving is very difficult and most will not have the resources to do this, but Breitbart was saying "yeah! Send them away, give them thousands of dollars to get out! We don't want them!" Deranged.

[thewayne]

We hope to leave in a couple of years after Russet retires, but just don't know if it's possible.  We don't have enough money for the "golden visa" requirements that a lot of countries have, assuming our economy doesn't completely crash.  And as I'm at retirement age and she'll be medically unsuited to continue working at an observatory, we're not really employable and we can probably rule out work visas regardless.  What country would take retirees without golden visas with substantial medical costs that we could afford to live in for another 25 years or so until we die.