China Sees More Overseas Students Coming Back

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China Sees More Overseas Students Coming Back

China is welcoming more students studying overseas back home, after two decades of watching hundreds of thousands of its students heading off to western countries to take higher degrees.

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China is welcoming more students studying overseas back home, after two decades of watching hundreds of thousands of its students heading off to western countries to take higher degrees.

The Western Returned Scholars' Association (WRSA), China's largest organization of its kind, which brings together returned students, is designing a new scheme to help more students better serve their homeland.

"We're working hard to attract more and more young people into our organization to keep pace with the times," WRSA President Ding Shisun said.

The association has founded two chapters in recent years, the MBA (master of business administration) Association and the Chamber of Commerce, WRSA executive vice-president Wang Nai said.

A third one, Chapter of Experts in Hotel Management Industry, is expected to debut in early January, Wang said.

Since 1978, when the government began to open the country to the outside world, more than 300,000 Chinese students have traveled abroad - mainly to North American and West European countries - for graduate study.

China's booming market has drawn back home about 140,000 students and the number is still rising.

Chinese students are also diversifying their destinations for further study.

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