Since China adopted its open-door p

Since China adopted its open-door policy approximately twenty-five years ago, Chinese higher education has begun once again to draw closer to the advanced Western world. China's decision to send scholars and students to the United States at the end of the 1970s, after thirty years of hostility between the two countries, marked a dramatic turning point in the nation's educational history. Today, about 50,000 Chinese students, are studying in the United States, accounting for 10 percent of the total international students in the country. More and more Chinese students have gone to other countries to study. According to statistics from the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), China sends more students than any other country to study abroad. In the other direction, many students from the United States and elsewhere are going to China to study language, culture, history, traditional Chinese medicine, science, engineering, and other fields. The increasing number of international students worldwide demonstrates a relatively quick change in the integration of global education.