After more than two years, China is re -open to them

For more than two years, China has opened the door to foreign students for the first time to relax the entry restrictions on them since the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia.

Bloomberg, USA on August 24th, the original title: China will re -open to foreign students after more than two years

For more than two years, China has opened the door to foreign students for the first time to relax the entry restrictions on them since the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia. The Chinese Embassy in the United States issued a statement on its WeChat public account on Tuesday evening saying that from 00:00 on August 24, 2022, Beijing time, foreign students and personnel holding valid APEC business travel card personnel who hold valid learning permits may be available. Entry China. The embassies of China in Japan and India have also issued similar statements.

Although China has been allowed to enter the country for a while, it shows that Beijing is trying to make all aspects of the Chinese economy normally, and at the same time, it has firmly implemented its strategy of clearing its new crown pneumonia. Anyone who enters China still faces one of the most stringent border epidemic prevention systems in the world, and still needs to accept forced isolation. According to Chinese media reports, allowing international students to return does not mean that China relaxes its strict epidemic prevention measures, nor does it mean that the government has abandoned dynamic clearance policies.

Even after relaxing the isolation regulations in June this year, China is still performing the most stringent entry requirements in the world. Passengers who arrived need to accept 7 days of centralized isolation medical observation and 3 Heavenly House health monitoring. The flight to China is also restricted.

In 2018, China ushered in 49,2185 foreign students, below more than 1 million foreign students studying in the United States in the United States in the 2019-2020 school year. Most foreign students studying in China are from South Korea, and Thai and Pakistan students follow closely.

With the sudden epidemic in the hot spots of tourism in summer, China's latest wave of epidemic seemed to be fading. On Monday, there were 1,748 new local infection cases in China, which was significantly lower than the peak of more than 3400 cases a week ago. Most of the time in 2020 and 2021, China has achieved zero -increase local new crown pneumonia cases, and then is challenged by more contagious mutant strains. Even so, the Chinese government still adheres to the "dynamic clearing zero" because Beijing is unwilling to see the large -scale death of other countries in China. Official data shows that since the outbreak of this epidemic, only 5,200 people have died of new crown pneumonia, and the number of deaths in the United States exceeds 1 million, which is the core fact that supports Chinese officials on more advantages in Chinese epidemic prevention methods. (Author Belinda Cao, Linda Lu)

Japan's "Nikkei Asian Review" August 24th article, original title: After long -term obstruction of the new crown pneumonia, China re -open to Japanese students

After the popularity of new crown pneumonia, after two and a half years of suspension, the Chinese government will soon accept international students from Japan to return to China. Since Tuesday, the Chinese Embassy in Japan has begun to apply for visas for long -term study abroad in China. After accepting a 10 -day centralized isolation and home health monitoring, prospective students are expected to be allowed to sit in the university class.

Before the 50th anniversary of the normalization of Japanese -China diplomatic relations next month, this change in encouraging the development of the younger generation seems to be one of the measures aimed at alleviating bilateral tensions.

In the early days of the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia's epidemic in March 2020, Beijing implemented strict entry restrictions on foreign citizens. Foreign officials are one of the few exceptions. Since then, China has gradually relaxed entry restrictions on business passengers and other people, but has not been canceled to international students from Japan. In this regard, Tokyo once lobby Beijing to restart the visa processing business. (Author Hadian Field Division, translated by Wang Huicong)

The picture shows the Global Times August 25th edition article on August 25th

- END -