High-scoring students with results above the undergraduate admission threshold are increasingly choosing vocational colleges over traditional four-year university courses, a trend that signals a shift in how Chinese families evaluate education.
Fudan University in Shanghai welcomed over 5,100 undergraduate freshmen from across the world on Sunday.
From warm Ramadan gatherings at the Chinese Embassy in Egypt to the quiet rhythm of daily lab work at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, 28-year-old Doha Fares has traveled 7,000 kilometers to build a life in China, a country her father describes as "friendly and lovely".
Before coming to China, 17-year-old Russian student Ilkhan Fayzullin saw the country as "ancient and distant".
Doha Fares has fond childhood memories of Ramadan dinners held at the Chinese embassy in Cairo — long tables where Chinese diplomats and Egyptian families broke fast together, her father talking animatedly with friends he had known for decades.
Egyptian university students who visited China this summer expressed strong admiration for the country's seamless integration of technology into daily life, its modern infrastructure and the friendliness of its people, describing their experience as enlightening and transformative.
The number of people appearing for Mandarin proficiency tests in Kyrgyzstan has surged more than threefold over the past five years, reflecting a growing interest in the Chinese language amid deepening economic ties and educational cooperation between the two countries, the administrator of the HSK examination said.
Retired United States educator Ronald Sakolsky returned Saturday to the former Henan province classroom in Luoyang where he taught English back in 1999, as part of a high profile China trip rooted in his decades-long friendship with celebrated desert restoration pioneer Yin Yuzhen.
From language barriers to university friendship, in the second episode of Unpacked, Natalia and Grass shared their heartfelt experiences at Beijing Foreign Studies University.
About 30 university students from Europe recently learned about the latest technologies related to new energy vehicles and intelligent connected mobility in Wuhan, Hubei province, during a study tour.
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