Economic Growth Ahead and Home Education Behind
Resulted in More Chinese Students Choose Studying Overseas
Class 6 Candy
Since 2008 China surpassed India with most students studying abroad, “oversea study”has become a significant topic, known by young Chinese students heading Australia, U.K. U.S.A. Canada, Singapore and more to pursuit “better” education. The first Chinese student to go overseas was businessman Yung Wing back in 1847 who studied in Yale University and believed that it was important to understand western science and technical knowledge to strengthen his country. Later a group of naval students were sent to Europe by Chinese government to learn shipbuilding, and after Meiji Restoration another group to Japan, because governors hoped that knowledge those students brought back would help modernize China. In early 20th century there was a constant stream of young Chinese heading overseas and the most famous one was Sun Yat-sen, first president and founding father of the Republic of China. After the Cultural Revolution which discontinued oversea study programs, in a speech in 1978, Deng Xiaoping encouraged Chinese students to learn abroad, and since then oversea study programs expanded dramatically. In 2011 three hundred and forty thousand Chinese went overseas to study and number is expected to continue rising this year (“Chinese students become more interested in studying abroad”). Current study-overseas fever generated from China’s booming economic growth, convenience and attraction of
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