The state-owned CCTV and People's Daily (May 19) published a report on its front page of a
letter Xi Jinping wrote to students at Nanjing University who studied abroad and returned
home.
(Comment: Fortune magazine reported an 18% decline in the number of Chinese students’
applications for US universities for the 2022 academic year, compared with 2021. The US
Student and Exchange Visitor Program reported in April, saying there were 348,992 Chinese
students in the United States last year, 33,569 fewer than 2020. The number of Chinese students
in the UK, the number two destination for outbound students, recovered to 119,334 in 2021,
just below the 2019 level of 119,825, following a dramatic 32% plunge in 2020, according to
data from the country’s immigration office. Canada, the third most popular destination, has
seen its Chinese student population fall by 25%, from over 140,000 in 2019 to 105,000 in 2021.
China has not reported a total number of outbound students since the start of the pandemic.)
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