Education: Foreign student to double
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-08-08 13:46
China will enroll 300,000 foreigners in universities by 2020, up from 140,000
in 2005, a Chinese educational official said Monday.
The current 20
percent annual growth rate in student enrollments is expected to drop to eight
percent from 2020,Cao Guoxing, director-general with the International
Cooperation and Exchanges Department of the Ministry of Education, told a
conference in Shihezi, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
"China is
increasingly popular with foreign students because its economy is booming, so
the number of foreign students enrolling will continue to increase over the next
few years," he said. China recruited more than 140,000 foreign college students
from over 190 countries in 2005, the official said.
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