Overseas applicants vie to work for China's first prestigious private research institute

On the morning of June 28, over 30 applicants from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Singapore, and Israel came to Zhejiang's Hangzhou to compete for positions in the Westlake Institute for Advanced Study (WIAS), the first private research institute for advanced science and technology in China. It is the institute's fourth recruitment drive to attract overseas scholars since it was founded two years ago. ...