China attracts global talents

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While the US is experiencing a decline in international student enrollment due to conservative immigration policies and security concerns, China is rapidly accepting more and more developing countries' students to study in-country owing to the Belt and Road initiative, according to several Chinese think tanks.

The Center for China and Globalization (CCG), a Beijing-based Chinese independent think tank, together with the Institute of Development under the Southwestern University of Finance and Economics and Social Science Academic Press released the Annual Report on the Development of Chinese Students Studying Abroad (2017) on Monday in Beijing.

According to the report, in the 2016-17 school year, 1,078,822 international students departed to the US for higher education, which marks a year-on-year growth of 3.4 percent, compared to the previous year's 7.1 percent. This marks the first decline in new enrollment growth of international students since the 2006-07 school year. 

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(News source: Global Times)