Indian & Other Students Allowed to Return to China to Study

Source: Study International, Outlook India, Indian Embassy in Beijing

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told a media briefing here that “China attaches high importance to Indian students' concerns about returning to China for studies.

We have shared with the Indian sides the procedures and experience of other countries’ students returning to China”. “Actually, the work for Indian students’ return has already been started. All that remains to be done is for the Indian side to provide the list of students who need to come back to China,” he said.

As per earlier reports, over 23,000 Indian students, mostly studying medicine in Chinese colleges, are stuck in India after returning home as the coronavirus broke out in China in December 2019. They could not bear it on China due to the restrictions imposed by the Chinese government to arrest the spread of the contagion.

Sri Lanka

After two years of waiting, Sri Lankan students are now the latest cohort of international students permitted to travel to China to resume their studies on campus. The announcement came via an official media release by the Sri Lankan Embassy in China on April 21, 2022.

The statement mentioned that the Chinese Embassy in Colombo has “finalised two groups of students” to travel to China, although no number has been specified at the time of writing. “The Embassy will continue with its efforts to enable all students to return to their studies,” it said.

Those returning to China to continue their education will need to weather the challenging situation of leaving their families behind in an increasingly untenable situation, a predicament shared by many Sri Lankan students overseas.