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State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs

State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs rather than just read about it. In short: The State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs (SAFEA; Chinese: 国家外国专家局; pinyin: Guójiā Wàiguó Zhuānjiā Jú) is an external name used by China's Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security. SAFEA was previously its own agency of the government of the People's Republic of China (PRC) that operated under the State Council and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security.

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Reference excerpt

The State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs (SAFEA; Chinese: 国家外国专家局; pinyin: Guójiā Wàiguó Zhuānjiā Jú) is an external name used by China's Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security. SAFEA was previously its own agency of the government of the People's Republic of China (PRC) that operated under the State Council and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security. It was responsible for recruiting foreign experts outside of mainland China - including Taiwan and the special administrative regions - for work in the PRC, and managing the training of Chinese nationals outside of the PRC. It was headquartered in Zhongguancun, Haidian District, Beijing.

History SAFEA founded in 1956 and abolished in March 2018, when its functions were absorbed by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) as part of the deepening the reform of the Party and state institutions. The SAFEA name was retained to interact with foreign parties. The name was transferred to the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security in March 2023 as part of the plan on reforming Party and state institutions.

Recruitment The fields targeted for foreign recruitment included the economy, technology, management, education, engineering, science, culture, and healthcare. Foreigners usually worked in foreign invested joint-ventures, private industry, state-owned enterprises and public construction projects.

Programs and organizations supervised Thousand Talents Plan (TTP) China International Talent Exchange Foundation (CITEF) China Association for International Exchange of Personnel (CAIEP) China Services International Conference on International Exchange of Professionals

Partnerships SAFEA has had partnerships with universities and professional bodies in several countries, including:

University of Maryland, College Park University of Wisconsin–Madison Project Management Institute

Reaction

According to the 1999 Cox Report, SAFEA's CAIEP is "one of several organizations set up by the PRC for illicit technology transfer through contacts with Western scientists and engineers." In March 2022, a federal jury convicted a man of fraudulently obtaining U.S. visas for CAIEP employees. A 2019 report by the United States Senate Homeland Security Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations stated that SAFEA's contracts with foreign experts "include provisions that violate U.S. standards of research integrity, place TTP members in compromising legal and ethical positions, and undermine fundamental U.S. scientific norms of transparency, reciprocity, and integrity." SAFEA has been the subject of espionage investigations. In 2010, Noshir Gowadia was convicted for selling classified information, primarily regarding the Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit, to a SAFEA official. SAFEA has been reported to operate nominally private front organizations such as Virginia-based Triway Enterprises.

See also Thousand Talents Plan Industrial espionage Friendship Award (winners are selected by the SAFEA)

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External links Official website

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Worked examples

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Example 2 — changing one variable

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

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Applications of State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs

In research: State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1956 establishments in China, Brain drain, One institution with two names, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
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