Why China Should Embrace the Power of International Students
Although the number of foreigners coming to China to pursue education has risen throughout the course of the “reform and opening-up” period beginning in the late ’70s, the pace of growth has accelerated over the last decade, especially in the past five years. China’s institutions of higher education are currently home to approximately 500,000 international students, and the country’s emergence as an international education destination has prompted trend pieces in outlets such as Times Higher Education, as well as justifiably triumphant pronouncements from the Chinese government.
