Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Fujian, Jiangxi Higher Education Institutions List

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Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang Higher Education Institutions List

辽宁省 Liaoning Province Dalian University of TechnologyNortheast UniversityDalian Maritime UniversityLiaoning UniversityShenyang UniversityDalian UniversityShenyang Institute of TechnologyLiaoning Technical University Shenyang University of TechnologyShenyang Jianzhu UniverisityLiaoning Petrochemical UniverstiyDalian Jiatong UniversityAnshan University of Science and TechnologyShenyang Agricultur...

Hebei,Shanxi,InnerMongolia Higher Education Institutions List

河北省 Hebei Province Hebei UniversityHebei Institute of TechnologyYanshan UniversityHebei University of Science and TechnologyHebei University of TechnologyHebei Institute of TechnologyHebei Agricultural UniversityHebei Medical UniversityHebei Normal UniversityHebei University of Economics and TradeChinese People’s Armed Police AcademyCentral Institute for Correctional PoliceCollege of Disast...

Beijing,Tianjin,Shanghai,Chongqing Higher Education Institutions List

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Overseas students feel more at home

BEIJING, Aug. 16 -- China has the fifth highest number of overseas students in the world, Ministry of Education officials said yesterday. Only the US, UK, France and Germany play host to more international students. China has drawn more than 1.23 million students from abroad since launching its reform and opening up in the late 1970s, Vice-Minister of Education Zhang Xinsheng told a press co...

China emerges as popular destination for overseas students

BEIJING, Sept. 2 -- China is emerging as a popular destination for overseas students, with their numbers on the rise in the last three years, the People's Daily reported on Tuesday. A total of 195,000 students from 188 countries and regions came to study at 544 Chinese universities, colleges and research institutes in 2007, said the Beijing-based newspaper. This compared with 141,000 students ...

China to inject 600 mln yuan to build schools for disabled

BEIJING, Sept. 10 -- China has decided to allocate 600million yuan (about 87.7 million U.S dollars) to build 190 special schools for the disabled this year, an official said here on Wednesday. The fund was ten times the special education subsidy injected in the ten years starting on 1991, according to Sun Xiande, deputy director-general of the China Disabled Persons' Federation. "The govern...

China to initiate nationwide crackdown on illegal education fees

BEIJING, Sept. 12 -- China will initiate a nationwide crackdown on illegal education fees from Sept. 20, according to the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), one of the seven government agencies carrying out the plan, on Friday. The move, the sixth of its kind in recent years aimed to reduce financial burden on Chinese families, would conclude by the end of November, the NDRC sa...

More Chinese middle school teachers to teach Chinese in British schools

LONDON, Sept. 11 -- Ninety-five Chinese middle school teachers have been recruited to act as "Chinese-language assistants" to teach Chinese in British secondary schools for one year. The "Chinese Language Assistance" program, jointly launched by China and Britain in 2001, has drawn an increasing number of participants each year. The program aims to promote understanding and communication bet...

[Audio]Tips for learning basic Chinese — keep talking

It's easy to be daunted by Mandarin, so heed the words of Summer Xiang and Ben Johnson. They each offer excellent advice for first-time students. Xiang teaches Mandarin to several of us and encourages even full-time workers with little spare time to have a go. "If you don't have much time, don't worry," she says. "Concentrate on simple sentences and you will still find it very rewarding when y...