【英文】中国在东南亚的软实力：对德国和欧盟的影响（161页）

英文研究报告 2022年06月28日 07:28 管理员

Figure 5 shows a high percentage of Chinese students in all five countries through the years immediately preceding the COVID-19 pandemic, when measured against the overall number of foreign students. The largest share is seen in Thailand, where Chinese students accounted for 47.8 percent of all foreign students enrolled in undergraduate, graduate, training, and exchange programmes in 2018. Even in Malaysia, which had the lowest share among the chosen five ASEAN states, Chinese students still comprised the largest proportion of foreign enrolments. Along with Singapore and Thailand, Malaysia also participates regularly in the China Education Expo held every year since 2001 in several Chinese cities. These high-profile fairs offer some 30 countries the opportunity to promote their universities at national pavilions where they compete to attract the most promising Chinese students.

The PRC now claims a capacity to host almost 500,000 foreign students per year3 across more than 2,000 universities and more than 5,000 programmes in English. That student population is drawn from around the world, with Beijing placing particular emphasis on attracting students from outside the most industrialised states. Against this backdrop, the flow of students from the five selected Southeast Asian countries was on average slightly growing in the years before the COVID-19 pandemic, as Figure 6 illustrates. Of these, Thailand sent the most students to China from 2014 to 2018, while hosting the highest proportion of Chinese students at its own universities. Nevertheless, other destinations have proven more popular than China with students from these five states, with greater numbers travelling to Australia, the US, Japan, the UK, and other European countries for their higher learning.