Over four lakh foreign students studied in China in 2015

Over four lakh foreign students, including around 13,000 from India, studied in China last year, an increase of 50 per cent compared to 2010.
The higher education courses registered an increase of 17.5 per cent from 2010 as access to higher education has expanded constantly, Education Minister Chen Baosheng told legislators during the ongoing bimonthly session of the National People's Congress (NPC).
About 36.47 million overseas students studied higher education in the country.
Chinese universities and colleges attracted nearly 400,000 overseas students from 202 countries and regions last year, a 50 per cent surge from 2010, he said.
This included around 13,000 students from India. Over 8000 Indian students study medicine in Chinese colleges, according to Indian officials.

The gross enrollments ratio for higher education, a gauge for education opportunities, was 40 per cent in 2015, 13.5 percentage points higher than in 2010, exceeding the average level of medium-to-high income countries, Chen said, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
During the 12th Five-Year Plan period (2011-2015), over 45 per cent of the new work force had received higher education, Chen said in his report to the NPC.