来吧!这是一座城市对海外学子的呼唤,这呼唤始于2000年。2000年的6月29日,在辽东半岛最南端,在大连,一场意在呼唤海外学子归来的盛会——海创周正在举行。那天,天空下着淅淅沥沥的小雨,会场里人潮涌动,372名海外学子到场参加了这次活动,辽宁省14个城市组团参加,这些组团在会上充分展示了当地特色,充分表达了辽宁各地对海外人才的渴望。那天,时任大连市委书记、市长的薄熙来在开幕式上作了热情洋溢的讲话。他的讲话充满深情,打动了在场每个人的心,10多分钟的精彩演讲被海外留学人员热烈的掌声打断了16次。那次海创周之后,许多海外留学人员放弃了海外的优越环境,怀揣着一腔报国热情,回来了。当年底,仅在大连海外学子创业园,留学人员创办的企业就增加了30多家,辽宁省其他市县(区)也有留学人员进入。那是大连这座城市第一次以创业周活动的形式向海外学子张开怀抱。 Come on! This is a city’s call for overseas students. This call began in 2000. On June 29, 2000, at the southern tip of the Liaodong Peninsula, in Dalian, Haichuang Zhou, a grand event intended to call back overseas students, is being held. On that day, the sky was dripping with light rain, the crowds in the venue were surging. 372 overseas students attended the event and 14 cities of Liaoning Province took part in the delegation. These groups fully demonstrated local characteristics at the conference and fully expressed all over Liaoning. The desire for overseas talent. On that day, Bo Xilai, then secretary of the Dalian Municipal Party Committee and mayor of the city, gave a warm speech at the opening ceremony. His speech was full of affection and impressed the hearts of everyone present. Over 10 minutes of wonderful speeches were interrupted 16 times by the applause of overseas students. After the Haichuang week, many overseas students gave up their superior environment overseas and returned with an enthusiastic return to the country. At the end of the year, more than 30 companies were founded by overseas students only in Dalian Overseas Students Pioneering Park, and other students from other cities, counties (districts) in Liaoning Province also entered. It was the first time that the city of Dalian opened its arms to overseas students in the form of entrepreneurship week activities.