China becomes largest source of overseas students

Email|Print|Comments       twitter     facebook     Sina Microblog     reddit    

From 1978 to the end of 2012, more than 2.6 million Chinese studied outside the country, making China the world's top source of overseas students, official figures released on Friday showed.

In 2012, 399,600 Chinese went to study abroad, funded by the government or their employers, or at their own expense, according to the Chinese Service Center for Scholarly Exchange under the Ministry of Education.

China ranked first in the world in terms of the number of overseas students.

Currently, around 74 percent of Chinese overseas students are studying in the United States, Australia, Japan, Britain and Canada, showed the data.

The center added that the number of younger students studying abroad is rising year by year.

Since the introduction of China's reform and opening-up policy in 1978, around 1.1 million Chinese overseas students have chosen to return to their home country after finishing their studies, accounting for 72.38 percent of the total.

In 2012, 272,900 Chinese returned, an increase of 46.57 percent from 2011, according to the figures.

• Student in UK jailed for attempting bribe
• High school students want class act overseas
• Majority of post-1990s students go abroad to study
• Is overseas returnee working as driver a waste of talents?
• Chinese students stage Spring Festival gala in Russia
• What you may not know about studying abroad
• Culture exchange program clashes with students’ expectation
• 350,000 Chinese students to study abroad in 2011
• Chinese demand for overseas study surges in 2011
• Chinese parents pressure kids to study abroad

We Recommend

• Beautiful female soldiers around the world
  
• Rhythm and melody in hearts: photo story
• Czech artist performs bubble show at Hong Kong mall
• Run naked as punishment for missing sales target
• Italian Supreme Court confirms Berlusconi's jail verdict
• International Grand Bazzar in Urumchi,Xinjiang