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On January 18, 2024, according to the statistical report of the national immigration management agency, in 2023, China will inspect a total of 424 million people entering and leaving the country, and as many as 206 million inland residents alone.
This makes people wonder what is the attraction of foreign countries, and why do so many people leave the country where they were born and raised?
Study abroad boom
More than 20 years ago, if someone had a college student, it would really be "green smoke from the ancestral grave", because it meant that there would be a good future, and if you work harder, you can find a decent "iron rice bowl" job.
According to official data, in 2023 alone, the number of postgraduate students in the mainland will be as high as 4.74 million, and according to forecasts, in 2024, the number of undergraduate graduates in the mainland will reach 11.87 million, and the number of research graduates will also be as high as 1.4 million.
In the face of so many situations, not only has the mainland seen the expansion of academic qualifications, but also the involution behavior in all walks of life, therefore, in order to have a better way out in the future, many college students have chosen to take the postgraduate examination in China, or study abroad.
According to the "2023 White Paper on Chinese Students Studying Abroad - Graduate Chapter" released by Qide Education in Beijing on October 14, 2023, there will be nearly one million foreign students in China in 2022, and the number of students studying abroad has been on the rise.
And according to the 2022 data of the "Open Doors Report in the United States", a total of 290086 international students in Chinese mainland received higher education in 2021-2022, of which the number of graduate students alone reached 123182, and the UK also accepted 151,690 international students from Chinese mainland.
However, with the increasing number of Chinese students studying abroad, some people with "ulterior motives" in many countries have begun to over-interpret with prejudice, for example, you can see such a question on the American version of Zhihu Quora: "Are Chinese students studying abroad really anti-China and anti-government?"
In fact, there are many similar problems on overseas social media, but in fact, on the one hand, they are "envious" of China's rapid development, and on the other hand, they over-interpret it with their own prejudiced thoughts, the purpose of which is to create a "bad" phenomenon of China for foreign friends.
Every year, many college students and graduate students in mainland China will choose to study abroad, the purpose of which is to obtain a better quality of work and life, of course, some people will choose to go abroad in order to pursue a better educational environment abroad, but in any case, they go abroad does not mean that they do not love their country.
Moreover, for China's rapid development, it also needs more Chinese to go abroad, after all, this can provide more overseas business opportunities, and can also allow more Chinese enterprises and Chinese to "go out", so that new markets can be opened, and more international students can understand the real life abroad.
When international students go abroad, they can not only open up their own Sister Yan, but also open up the country more rationally or calmly, after all, many foreign countries are very beautiful when they are promoted, and when international students really experience it, they will also break the illusion of foreign life.
After all, there is a good saying: "the more you go abroad, the more patriotic you are", when they live abroad for a long time, they will miss their motherland and their relatives and friends at home very much, and this can also make these international students have a deeper sense of identity and belonging to the motherland.
Travel abroad
Among them, the reason why Chinese will go abroad in large quantities is not only because many international students want to study abroad, but also because with the improvement of the mainland's economic level, people's lives have also moved from food and clothing to a higher quality of life, at this time, domestic people have fallen in love with tourism.
According to the "China Outbound Tourism Development Report (2023-2024)" released by the China Tourism Academy, it can be seen that in 2023, the number of mainland outbound tourists will exceed 87 million, and according to the Institute's estimates, in 2024, the number of Chinese outbound tourists will be as high as 130 million.
Take Australia as an example, in order to better meet the needs of Chinese tourists, before 2020, the number of flights between China and Australia exceeded 197 per week.
Moreover, this behavior not only allows foreign people to see China's current economic development, but also allows them to see the unlimited potential of China's outbound tourism market, and according to the survey, in addition to the United States and Thailand, Europe has gradually become one of the destinations that Chinese are keen on.
In order to be able to cater to Chinese tourists, many foreign countries have been renovated to meet the needs of Chinese tourists, and they are constantly creating unique features to attract Chinese to check in, and near the airport, Chinese tourists can also see familiar Chinese, and some locals take the initiative to learn Chinese in order to attract business.
This can also better prove that with the strength of China's national strength, it also makes foreigners understand China more and more deeply, and it makes the status of Chinese abroad continue to improve, and this respect does not just stop at the show, after all, but from the perspective of profit, Chinese tourists will bring them good economic benefits every year.
Going out to work
With the advancement of the mainland's "Belt and Road" construction, many people have chosen to work abroad in order to find a satisfactory job, after all, many Chinese are skilled workers after going abroad, and the income they get is much higher than that in China.
And with the involution of the mainland industry, many people are faced with the situation of not being able to find a job or not finding a job in China, at this time, in order to alleviate their livelihood, they will focus on going abroad, after all, with the friendly cooperation between countries now, many countries are relatively simple in handling passports and visas.
If you know a little technology, you may be an ordinary worker in China, but when you go abroad, you will become a skilled worker, and when you are working, you can lead several local people or even dozens of people to work together, not only to earn money, but also to experience the feeling of being a leader.
And according to the data released by the Management Department of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare of Japan, there will be more than 1.8 million foreigners working in Japan in 2022, and a large part of them are from China, of course, media reports in various countries are also common, and the basic migrant workers account for a large Chinese population.
However, with the rise of this "wave", it has also made many criminals see that some bad intermediary companies will attract the attention of domestic people on the grounds of "high salary, guaranteed salary", etc., but many bad intermediary companies often charge high referral fees and deposits.
There are also some intermediary companies, which will be different from what you promised in China, and only find out that you have been deceived when you go abroad, so when looking for a job, you must not keep your eyes open, and you can't listen to verbal promises and other behaviors at will.
Of course, you must also master the local language before going abroad to work, after all, it is very troublesome to communicate with people in that unfamiliar place, and you also need to prepare sufficient funds before going to work, such as visas, intermediary fees, air tickets and other expenses.
In addition, after going abroad, they also have to face long-distance social relationships, on the one hand, they have to take care of the relationship between their domestic family, and on the other hand, they have to deal with their own social relations in a foreign country.
Although the salary that may be brought by working abroad is very considerable, you must make a decision based on your actual situation before going abroad, after all, there are many more problems you face.
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Originally published on Global Network 2024-01-18 Is it true that Chinese are studying abroad because they are anti-China? Let me tell you about the report
The original article was published on China Overseas Chinese Network on January 18, 2024 A report on the number of people entering and exiting the country will exceed 424 million in 2023
The original article was published on the global website on the "2023 White Paper on Chinese Students Studying Abroad - Graduate Chapter": The number of graduate students studying abroad is still on the rise
The original article was published on China High News Network on April 5, 2010 on the great changes in Chinese's overseas travel in the past ten years, from being discriminated against to being respected and valued