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6. The UK plays a rapidly expanding educational role in China. Scholarship schemes include eg Sino-British Friendship Scholarships. Scheme, Royal Fellowships, ODA Technical Cooperation awards.
end of 1987 there will be about 2,000 Chinese postgraduate students
in the UK and about 120 British undergraduates in China. The British Council and VSO play a growing role in English Language Training, with 130 English Language teachers and 30 VSO's currently
teaching English in China. Formal academic links with China are growing steadily, from 10 in 1981 to over 90 today.
7. The number of British tourists visiting China in 1986 was over 70,000, and has almost doubled in the past 5 years.
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