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Chinese students study overseas options as Covid controls come down
- Foreign students expected to stream back into China as restrictions ease
- 2023 boom year for student exchanges no sure thing, consultants say
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Amber Wangin Beijing
After three years of pandemic controls that limited academic exchanges between China and the rest of the world, students have begun making plans to study abroad again.
Analysts said that with China’s zero-Covid policy dismantled, more Chinese students were looking abroad to further their education. And with strict quarantine rules ended, foreign students were expected to stream back into China.
“Chinese study abroad will see a recovery [this] year after many obstacles are removed,” said Wang Huiyao, founder and president of the Centre for China and Globalisation (CCG), a Beijing-based think tank.
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From January 8, limits on the number of international passenger flights to China will be lifted, and arriving travellers will no longer need to quarantine.
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