The growing numbers of Chinese students who studied overseas returning their mother country has become a significant feature of the overall global flow of highly educated human capital. These students serve as a key reference point for devising policy regulations aimed at optimizing the value of such individuals for China’s social and economic development. Based on the continuous investigation of overseas Chinese students who went abroad for postgraduate work at foreign universities in 2011，this report will analyze the current prospects those students three years from now in terms of returning to China，employment conditions quality，comparing them with their counterparts who are doing postgraduate work at Chinese universities. Our findings show that overseas Chinese students are becoming more inclined to return to China. Of the Chinese postgraduates who went abroad to do further study in 2011，62% of them have returned home，with 48% preferring to live in cities. Some 78.0% of them have full-time jobs and 15.7% of them are in postgraduate schools. Additionally，2.3% of those returned overseas Chinese students became entrepreneurs，which is a significantly higher share than domestic postgraduates（0.7%）. Moreover，large numbers of those students are working in firms with international features and in large scale enterprises. Returnee overseas Chinese postgraduates have higher employment quality than domestic postgraduates.