January 22, 1999

China Gives Some Professors and Scientists Big Pay Raises

Many academics in China will be getting big raises.

The government plans to increase the salaries of selected professors and scientists to about $12,000 a year, or three times what they now make, as a way to stem a brain drain.

According to a report last week in People's Daily, the Communist Party's official newspaper, the first group of academics who will benefit from the new salary plan are to be

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