Economic Development through Migration: Facilitating Skilled Migration to China through the Belt and Road Initiative

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Eva L. Richter’s article addresses the legal and cooperative mechanisms that facilitate skilled migration to China under the Belt and Road Initiative. It reports that new Chinese legislation for foreigners with tertiary education, together with visa facilitation and targeted talent-attraction and retention programmes, is opening more opportunities for nationals of BRI countries, while those nationals are not being encouraged to migrate to China through bilateral employment agreements.