student
number exceeds 6,000 and 3,000 respectively. Fudan University,
Beijing Normal University, Tsinghua University, Shanghai
Transportation University, Zhejiang University, Nanjing
University, Nanjing Normal University and Nankai University
each have more than one thousand foreign students.
Universities
in China provide degree and non-degree education. The
degree-education includes technical school students, undergraduate,
master graduate, and doctor graduate education. The non-degree
education includes advanced students for visiting scholars
and researching scholars. In the past, foreign students
came to China mainly for further study, while the proportion
of foreign students studying for bachelor, master or doctor
degree increases a lot at present. Universities in China
adopt diverse teaching methods to diverse foreign students.
Universities
encourage foreign students to study for master or doctor
degree in China, and some universities can open courses
directly in foreign languages.
Teaching foreign
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teaching to foreigners.
The Chinese teaching to foreigners started in 1950. In
the year of 1987, the national
leading group office for Chinese teaching to foreigners
was specially established, which showed the government's
attention on Chinese teaching to foreigners.
External Chinese-language
teaching has developed fast. Summer short-term Chinese-language
training classes sponsored by institutions of higher learning
are an important form of Chinese-language study by foreign
students in China. Since 1986, China Radio International
has successively offered Chinese-language teaching in
its broadcast programs in Thai,
Persian, Laotian, Korean, Russian, Italian, German and
Spanish. Besides, Chinese-language teaching for employees
of foreign missions and organizations in China as well
as Chinese-language teaching through correspondence and
radio broadcasts have also developed. Today, hundreds
of textbooks for Chinese-language teaching are available.
On December
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