China Daily on March 3 featured an article entitled “Expat Student Numbers Rise in China” by Chen Jia.
The key points are that China in 2010 had a record 260,000 foreign students and by 2020 will draw an estimated 500,000 foreign students, according to the Ministry of Education.
South Korea sent the largest group, followed by the United States, Japan, Thailand, Vietnam, Russia, Indonesia, India, Kazakhstan and Pakistan.
The Ministry of Education is working with the US to implement a four-year education program initiated by President Hu Jintao and his US counterpart Barack Obama. US students in China are set to become one of the largest of the foreign groups, as Beijing and Washington work together to bring 100,000 students to China in the next four years, education officials say.
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