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China plans to put children off studying abroad as more pupils head overseas at younger ages The Ministry of Education said it would build ‘a mechanism to discourage minors from studying abroad’ without elaborating on the plan More than 700,000 Chinese residents moved abroad for study in 2019, a rise of more than 6 per cent from the previous year
For 18-year-old Wang Qianlin, the excitement of being accepted as a student at the University of California, Berkeley, in the United States ended abruptly when she learned that she could only study at her dream school via online courses at her home in Beijing. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the university has moved its courses for the 2020 fall semester online, and she has spent the last several months attending an online university. Taking a gap year was not a good choice because she said she could not find a good part-time job in Beijing as she had just graduated from high school, so she beg...