[{"id":195,"title":"Young scientists need collaboration","sha":"fcc3fd40bc1c5e66683efd3b40a01824","user_id":null,"state":"published","body":"As today’s science is a team effort, it is essential to promote the collaboration skills for young scientists in their early careers ([McNutt, 2015](https://www.sciencemag.org/content/349/6245/217.summary)). In China, the China-educated young scientists (*tubie* in Chinese, or ‘land turtles’), meet more challenges than foreign-educated intellectuals (*haigui* in Chinese, or ‘sea turtles’) when hunting a job or other achievements ([Fan, 2008](http://www.amazon.com/China-Move-Migration-Household-Routledge/dp/0415759749)). The major reason is that universities in China prefer to recruit young scientists with overseas background. *Tubie* thus have fewer choices, even they have equivalent academic records as *haigui*.\r\n\r\nA reasonable solution of *tubie*’s dilemma is to enhance collaboration with leading experts by ‘bring in’ and ‘going out’ strategies ([People’s Daily Online, 2015](http://lianghui.people.com.cn/2015npc/n/2015/0308/c393680-26656533.html)). Domestic labs should foster the collaboration with field leaders for young scientists’ benefit (i.e. [The Thousand Talents Plan](http://www.1000plan.org/en/)). In the meantime, young scientists should be encouraged to apply scholarships (e.g. [China Scholarship Council](http://en.csc.edu.cn)) for their overseas study and research, the way to be a *haigui*.\r\n","created_at":"2015-08-01T03:17:31.395Z","updated_at":"2022-03-27T13:18:22.766Z","zenodo_id":41518,"doi":"http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22313","subject":null,"tags":["young scientist","collaboration","education","china","teamwork","people skill"],"vote_count":2,"view_count":1,"score":2.1,"deleted":false,"muted":false,"tweeted":true,"attachment_file_name":null,"attachment_content_type":null,"attachment_file_size":null,"attachment_updated_at":null}]