More than 80% of overseas students have returned to China. Ministry of Education: Cooperation since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China | Ministry of Education
"General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed the need to improve the strategic strategy of opening up education to the outside world, coordinate the two big articles of 'bringing in' and 'going out', and also stressed the need to vigorously promote the brand building of 'study in China', what is the Ministry of Education's view on the situation of opening up education to the outside world? What are the main considerations?" On July 6, a reporter asked at a series of themed press conferences held by the State Information Office.
In response to this, Liu Zicheng, Director of the Comprehensive Reform Department of the Ministry of Education, stated that open cooperation is the only way to build a strong education country.
According to the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, the Ministry of Education actively promotes educational exchanges and cooperation with countries around the world, and has made a series of positive and beneficial progress. The overall layout of China's education opening up has been continuously optimized, the construction of an open highland has been vigorously accelerated, the efforts to promote reform and opening up have continued to increase, and participation in global education governance has deepened. China and foreign education cooperation and cultural exchanges have achieved a series of remarkable results.
Liu Zicheng shared several data: Firstly, China has signed mutual recognition agreements for academic qualifications and degrees with 58 countries and regions; Secondly, Chinese language teaching has been conducted in over 180 countries and regions worldwide, with a total of nearly 200 million people learning and using Chinese; Thirdly, over 1.3 million Chinese students studying abroad have studied and advanced in more than 100 countries around the world. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the proportion of people studying abroad and returning home has exceeded 80% of the total number of people studying abroad during the same period.
We will actively integrate and serve the new development pattern in accordance with the strategic deployment made by the central government, promote education opening up to the outside world on a larger scale, in a wider field, at a deeper level, and in a more proactive and flexible manner, and make positive contributions to making China an important education center with strong influence in the world.