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China's mainland universities have a tough time attracting brilliant minds to their faculty teams due to low salaries, but help might be on the horizon.

The country's rise as a major international power should lead to a growing wave of top intellectuals coming to China's mainland to teach and conduct research, Zhang Wenjun, vice president of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, said yesterday at the Third Sino-German University Presidents' Meeting in Shanghai.