A large number of returnees have come to grab jobs! Graphical big data: why 80% of international students choose to return to China

In 1847, "Father of Chinese Students" Rong Hong arrived in New York after three months across the ocean. Seven years later, he returned to China with the first diploma awarded to a Chinese by Yale University, becoming the first "returnee" in China. More than a hundred years later, China has become the world's largest exporter of international students.

In 2017, the number of Chinese students studying abroad exceeded 600,000. But the growth in the number of "returnees" has been even stronger. At the beginning of the 21st century, only about a dozen of every 100 overseas students returned to China, but by 2017, about 79 of every 100 overseas students returned to China for development.

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Over the past 40 years of reform and opening up, there have been 5,194,900 Chinese students studying abroad, and 1,454,100 are currently studying and researching abroad.

The data shows that the number of people returning from overseas studies has steadily increased, and the trend of returning high-level talents is obvious. Over the 40 years of reform and opening up, among all kinds of overseas students, 3.132 million international students have chosen to return to China for development, accounting for 83.73% of the total number of international students who have completed their studies.

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The destinations of Chinese students studying abroad are relatively concentrated, and most of them go to developed countries and regions in Europe and America to study. Since the reform and opening up, half of the international students have gone to the United States. Among the more than 600,000 international students who went abroad in 2017, more than 350,000 were distributed in various universities in the United States, accounting for 58% of the total.

America's Attractiveness Declining?

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According to the "Report on the Development of Studying Abroad in China (2017)", Chinese students receiving higher education in the United States accounted for 5.3% of the total number of US higher education students and 24% of the global total of international students, ranking first among all study destination countries. .

However, judging from the admission of international students, in the past three academic years, the growth rate of the number of international students in American higher education institutions has been decreasing year by year, while the growth rate of international students receiving higher education in China has increased significantly.

The decline in the number of foreign students in the United States is mainly due to the fact that after Trump was elected President of the United States, the number of F-1 visas obtained by mainland students in fiscal year 2016 fell by 46% compared with fiscal year 2015. In addition, India and South Korea and other major source countries for overseas students in the United States also declined to varying degrees, which is directly related to the changes in relevant policies after Trump took office.