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The Thousand Talents Plan (TTP) (Chinese: 千人计划; pinyin: Qiān rén jìhuà) or Thousand Talents Program (Chinese: 海外高层次人才引进计划; pinyin: Hǎiwài gāo céngcì réncái yǐnjìn jìhuà) was established in 2008 by the central government of China to recognize and recruit leading international experts in scientific research, innovation, entrepreneurship.
The program was further elevated in 2010 to become the top-level award given through China’s National Talent Development Plan, a plan that was conceived jointly by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council of the People’s Republic of China in 2010 to strengthen innovation and international competitiveness within China.[1][2] The United Front Work Department‘s Western Returned Scholars Association is the official representative body for program participants.[3]
1000 Talent Plan professorship is the highest academic honor awarded by the State Council, analogous to the top-level award given by the Ministry of Education.[4] The program includes two mechanisms: resources for permanent recruitment into Chinese academia, and resources for short-term appointments that typically target international experts who have full-time employment at a leading international university or research laboratory.[4]
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand_Talents_Plan
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Breitbart
Harvard Prof. Charles Lieber Indicted for Secret Work with Wuhan University
Former Harvard Professor Charles Lieber was indicted by a grand jury on Tuesday over allegations that he maintained an undisclosed financial relationship with the Chinese government by taking a position as a “Strategic Scientist” at the Wuhan University of Technology. The scheme is part of China’s “Thousand Talents” program, which sees to pay western academics to hand over research funded by the government of their home countries.
According to a report by CNBC, former Harvard Professor and Chemistry Department Chair Charles Lieber was indicted by a grand jury on Tuesday over allegations that he failed to disclose professional relationships with entities funded by the Chinese government.
Breitbart News reported in January that Lieber had been removed from his Harvard post and arrested on charges that he lied about his connections with the Chinese government. Lieber reported worked with China’s Thousand Talents program, which bribes American academics in exchange for access to taxpayer-funded research.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts on Tuesday claimed that Lieber worked with the Wuhan University of Technology on various scientific programs.
It is alleged that, unbeknownst to Harvard University, beginning in 2011, Lieber became a “Strategic Scientist” at Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) in China. He later became contractual participant in China’s Thousand Talents Plan from at least 2012 through 2015. China’s Thousand Talents Plan is one of the most prominent Chinese talent recruitment plans designed to attract, recruit, and cultivate high-level scientific talent in furtherance of China’s scientific development, economic prosperity and national security.
According to court documents, these talent recruitment plans seek to lure Chinese overseas talent and foreign experts to bring their knowledge and experience to China, and they often reward individuals for stealing proprietary information. Under the terms of Lieber’s three-year Thousand Talents contract, WUT allegedly paid Lieber a salary of up to $50,000 USD per month, living expenses of up to 1 million Chinese Yuan (approximately $158,000 USD at the time) and awarded him more than $1.5 million to establish a research lab at WUT.
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International Business Times
What is Thousand Talent Program? Find out the truth behind Chinese scientists working in US
Thousand Talent Program members have stolen the US-funded Department of Energy research for Chinese institutions
By Bhaswati Guha Majumder
March 21, 2020 13:45 +08
Thousand Talents Program is China’s elaborated effort to recruit overseas researchers to send their skills home which later worried the US, which saw the TTP as a mode to encourage economic espionage and theft of intellectual property, one of the major issues behind the trade war between China and the US. It was also claimed by the US officials that Beijing’s so-called military-civil fusion strategy also elevates the threat.
As per a report published by US Senate Homeland Security, TTP members have stolen the US-funded Department of Energy research for Chinese institutions. Now the National Institutes of Health is investigating the loss of intellectual property and capital to China. But, among all these issues and vulnerability a different scene unfolded half a world away in China, where around 300 scientists and researchers started working to find an easy test for COVID-19 and the leader of this project is University of Florida’s former researcher Weihong Tan.
Chinese researchers in the US
While at Florida, Tan maintained a connection to Hunan University, In his annual disclosures to Florida, Tan did report positions and income in China, as his curriculum vitae states that he was an adjunct professor at a Chinese school from 1993 till he joined the University of Florida.
The 59-year-old researcher abruptly left Florida in 2019 during an investigation into his alleged failure to disclose Chinese academic appointments and funding. Tan moved to Hunan University in China, where the chemistry professor now conducts his vital research. When the Novel Coronavirus outbreak took place in China’s Wuhan, he was pivoted to working on a Novel Coronavirus test.
Sponsored by the Chinese government, to find an effective test for the COVID-19, Tam joined a team of researchers at two other universities in China and a biotechnology company. The team of scientists were assigned to develop a test which could produce a result in 40 minutes and that can be performed in a doctor’s office or in non-medical settings such as airports.
A 13-page booklet detailing the test’s development and benefits revealed that the test has been tried successfully in more than 200 samples collected from hospitals and checkpoints but it is not clear how widely the test is being used in China, where the COVID-19 killed 3,405 people since the outbreak in December 2019.
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Research in China
Tan is one of those three researchers who relocated to China while under investigation for allegedly hiding Chinese funding or affiliations with universities there. While in 2019, altered by NIH, Florida started investigating Tan’s outside activities. Even though he did not mention anything about his departure from Florida, Tan said that his department chairman at Florida was “supportive” of his research in China as recently as 2015.
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China’s Thousand Talents was aimed at reversing the country’s brain drain to the West by offering luxurious salaries and lab facilities to the top Chinese scientists back home if they return.
Though none of the Chinese researchers faced any conviction for stealing or inappropriately sharing intellectual property, FBI’s assistant director of counter-intelligence, John Brown told the US Senate in November 2019 that Thousand Talents program participants are often motivated to “transfer to China the research they conduct in the US, as well as other proprietary information to which they can gain access, and remain a significant threat to the United States.”
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-funding-of-u-s-researchers-raises-red-flags-11580428915
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China’s Long Arm Reaches Into American Campuses
weehingthong 
You kind of wonder with our e-gamers, foosball champions, outstanding students in the SPM{and top scorers in the subject of history{and more accepted than UEC}} and esteemed lecturers in our multitude of colleges and universities, none seems to have been headhunted by China. If we don’t have any home grown Nobel prize winners, this would qualify as bole tahan juga.
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