Are there generally a large number of Chinese immigrants from Southeast Asian countries such as Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia who immigrate to China?

According to statistics, as of December 31, 2004, there were 110,844 overseas students from 178 countries studying in my country in 31 provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities (not including Study at 420 colleges and universities and other teaching and research institutions in Taiwan Province and the Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative Regions.

2004 was the year with the largest number of international students coming to China since the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the largest annual increase (an increase of 33,129 students compared with 2003), the largest number of countries of origin, and the largest number of schools studying in China. The year saw the largest annual increase (42.6%) in the number of international students.

Based on study period, there are 76,486 long-term international students and 34,358 short-term international students (study period within 6 months).

According to statistics by continent, the number of international students from Asia is still the largest, accounting for 85,112, accounting for 76.8% of the total number of international students in China throughout the year; Europe has 11,524, accounting for 10.4%; the Americas has 10,695, accounting for 9.7 %; Africa has 2,186 people, accounting for 2.0%; Oceania has 1,327 people, accounting for 1.2%.

According to country statistics, the number of international students from South Korea, Japan, the United States, Vietnam and Indonesia still ranks among the top five, with 43,617, 19,059, 8,480, 4,382 and 3,750 students respectively. Countries with more than 500 international students in China include: Thailand 2,371, Russia 2,288, Germany 2,187, France 1,954, Nepal 1,495, Philippines 1,375, Mongolia 1,333, Malaysia 1,241, Canada 1,205, Australia 1,159 Names include 1,046 from the UK, 929 from Singapore, 894 from Pakistan, 765 from India, 680 from Italy, 626 from North Korea and 509 from Laos.

According to news released by the New York Times, as early as 2012, the proportion of international students among Singapore's undergraduate students reached 18%, and the number is increasing year by year.

Among them, most of the international students are from China and India. According to data disclosed by Xinhuanet in 2018, there are currently more than 50,000 Chinese students in Singapore, second only to the United States, Canada, Britain, Australia, Japan and South Korea. They are the seventh largest overseas destination for Chinese students, and this number is likely to be in the foreseeable future. It will continue to climb or even surpass South Korea.

Malaysia is rapidly becoming an education hub, especially in the field of higher education, where the number of students from mainland China is skyrocketing.

The number of Chinese students studying in Malaysia is increasing rapidly year by year. This situation will continue to grow, and it is expected that the number of people will increase 2-3 times in the next 2-3 years, basically increasing at a rate of 15% to 20% every year.

On March 17, 2007, the number of Chinese students studying in Malaysia reached 12,000.

It is reported that there are as many as 11,445 Chinese students in Malaysia.

At present, there are not many Chinese students studying in other Southeast Asian countries, and there is no data found in Indonesia, so there should not be many.

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