The development of higher education itself is bound to be strongly influenced by economic globalization. Because a country's higher education can't develop completely in isolation now, but must enter the great cycle of the world economy and society.
A prominent reality is the globalization of talent competition brought about by economic globalization. This is not only manifested in scrambling to train high-level talents and striving to improve the quality of talent training, but also in the phenomenon that talents have started and now more and more flow to rich countries. According to the report of the United Nations Development Programme, from 1960 to 1990, the United States and Canada accepted more than10 million professionals and technicians from developing countries. With the development of economic globalization, the number of developing countries studying in developed countries has increased rapidly, while the proportion of people returning to serve after graduation is very small. Moreover, the higher the level of talents, the more serious the brain drain, which leads to the shortage of talents in developing countries, affects their economic development and makes it more difficult to retain talents.
In order to cope with this vicious circle, developing countries must speed up the popularization of higher education, carry out educational reform, focus on improving the quality of education, and do everything possible to implement the talent introduction plan, especially to build some world-class universities with international competitiveness, so as to become bases for training, attracting, using and exchanging talents. This is not only an urgent task, but also a great opportunity for the development of higher education.