Overseas Chinese education report released   

中国发布首部留学蓝皮书 海外留学呈六大趋势

《中国留学发展报告(2012)》国际人才蓝皮书2日在北京发布。报告称，当前，中国人海外留学呈现“目的地分布广、专业选择更实用、出国方式多样化、学生层次多元化、经费来源多样化和就业选择多元化”六大趋势。

Beijing (CNS) – A report on overseas studies by the Center for China and Globalization (CCG) was released Sunday in Beijing.

The report summarized new trends in overseas education that have evolved since 2000, including a greater diversity of destinations, more specialized fields, and various new methods of going abroad, said Wang Huiyao, director general of the CCG.

Since the reform and opening-up policy, the number of Chinese people who have gone abroad for education has reached nearly 2.5 million, the most in the world, said Ma Wenpu, chairman of the China Overseas-Educated Scholars Development Foundation.

In 2001, 339,700 people studied abroad, nearly equal to the overall number from 1978 to 2000, Ma added.