He explained: "Chinese scholars are scattered all over the world, with more than 20,000 in the United States alone. While many of the 1,000 scholars who have taken part in the 11 seminars held so far were not known to most people, though they had enviable academic accomplishments."
李教授強調，我國的海外學人遍及世界各地，就以旅美學人來說，各個學門的專家有兩萬多人，而國建會舉行了十一次，只邀回一千多人。有很多學人的學術成就很高，但並不為國內新聞界所熟悉。