Chinanews.com, December 22. Cheng Jiacai, director of the Overseas Education Service Center of the Ministry of Education, introduced on the 22nd that in the past five years, the Overseas Education Service Center has served more than 1.608 million overseas students of various types.
A total of 9 recruitment fairs for talents studying abroad were held, with more than 1,500 units participating in the exhibition, and more than 30,000 jobs were provided for returned overseas students.
The Ministry of Education held a press conference on the 22nd. At the meeting, Cheng Jiacai introduced the service work for international students during the 13th Five-Year Plan.
He said that in the past five years, the Study Abroad Service Center has fully implemented the policy of studying abroad in the new era, focusing on work in key areas such as studying abroad, returning from studying abroad, studying in China, and international exchanges and cooperation in education, serving more than 1.608 million overseas students of various types. .
In terms of studying abroad, Cheng Jiacai pointed out that the Study Abroad Service Center undertakes the task of dispatching nationally sent overseas students. In the past five years, it has handled about 80,000 publicly sent overseas students.
In addition, provide guarantee services for Chinese citizens to study abroad safely.
Entrusted by the International Department of the Ministry of Education, in the past five years, a total of 474 "Safe Study Abroad" pre-departure training sessions have been organized in 31 provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities across the country. The total number of people who received on-site training was more than 170,000 people who received online training. There were 1.244 million person-times and 11.47 million person-times participated in the "Safe Study Abroad with You" series of promotional activities. The concept of "Safe Studying Abroad" gradually became popular.
In 2020, after the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the information on the prevention and control of the epidemic situation in various countries will be compiled and released to overseas students in a timely manner, and experts will be organized to compile the "Guidelines for the Prevention and Control of Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia for Overseas Students", which will be included in the health package distributed to overseas students.
At the same time, well-known domestic experts are organized to hold several lectures for overseas students to guide them to do a good job in epidemic prevention.
In terms of returning to China from studying abroad, Cheng Jiacai said that it provides one-stop services for overseas students from talent recruitment, innovation and entrepreneurship, degree certification, dispatch and settlement, and personnel files.
The first is to hold a recruitment fair for overseas students.
In the past five years, 9 recruitment fairs for talents studying abroad have been held, with more than 1,500 units participating in the exhibition, providing more than 30,000 jobs for returned overseas students.
In order to solve the employment difficulties caused by the epidemic situation for returning overseas students, the 2020 online recruitment season for overseas talents was successfully held. More than 1,000 units participated in the recruitment season and more than 20,000 recruitment positions were provided.
The second is to encourage overseas students to return to China for innovation and entrepreneurship.
In the past five years, 5 sessions of the "Chunhui Cup" Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition for Chinese Overseas Students have been held, with 2,690 projects registered by overseas students and 1,352 shortlisted projects.
Some short-listed overseas students have become national and local leaders.
The third is to provide overseas (overseas) academic degree certification, dispatch and settlement, and personnel file transfer services for overseas students.
Properly solving the specific problems in the work of returned overseas students is an important measure to encourage overseas students to return to work.
In the past five years, it has provided overseas (foreign) academic degree certification services for more than 1.257 million overseas students, and has handled dispatch and settlement services and personnel file transfer services for nearly 220,000 overseas students.
In terms of studying in China, Cheng Jiacai pointed out that to build a "study in China" brand and tell the Chinese story well.
Over the past five years, 22 "Study in China" education exhibitions have been held in 22 cities in more than 10 countries, and a total of 460 Chinese institutions have participated in the exhibition.
The "Study in China" education exhibition has effectively promoted my country's education opening up and the development of the cause of studying in China.
Through holding activities such as essay contests for foreign students in China, organize foreign students in China to tell Chinese stories and spread the good voice of China through their own personal experience of studying in China.
Since 2017, four consecutive "My Beauty Encounters with China" essay contest for international students in China has been held, involving students from more than 100 countries.
In terms of improving the quality of services, Cheng Jiacai said that it will make full use of the "Internet + Study Abroad Service" to provide students studying abroad with a convenient and efficient way of doing things.
The Study Abroad Service Center has continued to deepen the reform of "delegation, control, and service". In 2019, the "Internet + Study Abroad Service" government service platform will be fully established to allow "more data to run away, and overseas students not to run away."
The platform realizes the full online processing of four types of service services such as studying abroad, returning from studying abroad, foreign (overseas) degree certification and studying abroad, and the service of studying abroad has entered a new era of digital and information services.