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In 1998, when she reviewed work on
sending Chinese students abroad for advanced studies,
Vice Minister of Education Wei Yu wrote: "In China
20 years ago, all neglected tasks need to be taken up
and accomplished, and the tide of reform and opening to
the outside world was sweeping across the country. As
the nation's focus of work was shifting toward economic
development, our primary task was to develop education
and science and technology, to train as quickly as possible
qualified people needed urgently by the nation. It is
precisely because of this reality that Deng Xiaoping personally
attended to polices on science and technology and education
and made the decision to increase the number of students
to be sent abroad for advanced studies. Faced with choices
of historic significance, China did not go the way of
self-isolation.
Wei Yu went to Germany to study in 1979. She spent
one and a half years there completing her paper for
a doctor's degree that would have normally required
3-5 years. Her research opened the way to a new research
program in West Germany and won her a Boscher medal.
In 1981, Aachen Industrial University awarded Wei Yu
a doctor's degree. At present, as vice minister of education,
Wei is in charge of external exchanges in the education
field.
China is now the biggest source country for students
studying abroad and also accepts large numbers of foreign
students. China has educational exchanges and cooperation
with 145 countries and regions in the world.
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