Source: Yiwu sourcing agent Author: Gary Date: 2010-10-12
Information from Yiwu Educational Department shows that Yiwu has become the county-level city with the most foreign students in China. Schools in Yiwu, including Yiwu Industrial &Commercial College, have recruited nearly 500 foreign kids till now.Presently, 9 schools, including Yiwu High School, Yiwu No.2 High School, Chouzhou Middle School, Yiwu Experimental Primary School, Wu'ai Primary School and Yiwu Qunxing Primary School, are qualified to recruit foreign students .Those foreign students learn Chinese for most of their school time although they have foreign teachers who help them with Arabic, Korean and English.
About 100 foreign students are members of a Chinese painting class in a primary school . Xiao Te, a kid from Afghanistan, portrayed a painting named Home on a piece of Xuan
paper in a on-site painting contest held in Yongkang city, which describes the tragic scene of an Afghan city after being bombed by U.S. bombers and the beautiful and promising scene of the rebuilt city.
Judges were deeply moved by what he wants to convey in the picture and he won the first prize naturally.Some foreigners said that besides Chinese, they hope their children can have a good command of the cultures of different countries instead of just superficial knowledge.
Asamatteroffact, Yiwu educational department found the growing demand for foreign children ‘seducation several years ago. In addition to encouraging schools to obtain the qualification for foreign student enrollment, Yiwu began to foster international schools (schools for foreign students). At the beginning of 2008, Singapore Xinyi Education Co., Ltd became the first that prepared to set up an international school in Yiwu.
The school has been approved by the education department of Zhejiang province and is waiting for the approval of the Ministry of Education.
Considering the Arabic background of many foreigners in Yiwu, Yiwu educational department encourages private middle schools to obtain the qualification for enrolling foreign students in order to speed up the development of schools recruiting Arabic children.
According to related persons, Yiwu issued 17.6 thousand persontimes of residence permits and visas for foreigners in 2009, which rank first among all the cities in Zhejiang province for a third consecutive year . Incomplete statistics say parents of more than 1, 000 kids have the plan for their children to receive education in Yiwu.
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