Governments in rural areas are harvesting the experience of overseas returnees to boost grassroots development. Zhou Ti studied at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers in France for more than two years for a master's degree in management. After working for the bank for two years, he decided to go back to his hometown in Hunan province where a county was recruiting overseas returnees for town-level positions. Overseas returnees have a comparatively broad scope of vision and active thinking and their innovation is an advantage, but grassroots jobs are not yet attractive to overseas returnees, according to the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Human Resources and Social Security, which is in charge of the city's recruitment of village heads. Overseas returnees are less active in applying for grassroots positions and are less stable in retaining the work compared with graduates from domestic universities, the bureau said. Reported China Daily