Foreign Student Enrollment In Chinese Universities Expected To Increase Significantly

From the blog WOW, an online news magazine produced by the students of the Journalism Department of Beijing Foreign Studies University:

By 2020 Chinese universities will enroll 300,000 students from abroad, up from 140,000 in 2005, a Chinese educational official announced at a conference in Xinjiang recently and reported by the Xinhua News Agency.

The report said the information was released by Mr. Cao Guoxing, director-general with the International Cooperation and Exchange Department of the Ministry of Education, at a conference in Shihezi, northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Mr. Cao also said that the current 20 percent annual growth rate in foreign student enrollments was expected to drop to eight percent after 2020.