从“五四”运动起,大多数留学生都投身革命,拯救中国。新中国建立之后,以钱学森、邓稼先为代表的大多数留学生纷纷回国参与新中国的建设。改革开放以来,大批留学人员归国创业。从1872年到1978年百年间,中国出国留学人员总数不过13万,但自1978年以来,中国已送出了二百多万名留学生。新一代海归也大多投身于祖国经济建设大潮,我们将其称之为新海归。 Since the “May 4th Movement”, most of the overseas students have devoted themselves to revolution and save China. After the founding of New China, most of the overseas students, represented by Qian Xuesen and Deng Jiaxian, returned to participate in the construction of New China one after another. Since the reform and opening up, a large number of overseas students have returned home for business. Between the years 1872 and 1978, China had only 130,000 overseas students studying abroad, but since 1978, China has sent over 2 million overseas students. A new generation of returnees are also mostly devoting themselves to the tide of economic construction in the motherland, which we call it the new sea return.