中國成爲亞洲最大的留學目的國大綱

China has become Asia's most popular destination for overseas students, said Li Hai, deputy director of the Department of International Cooperation and Exchange of China's Ministry of Education, at a press conference last month.
教育部國際合作與交流司副司長李海在上個月的一場發佈會上表示，我國已經成爲亞洲最大的留學目的國。

According to Li, China has stepped onto a new stage of two-way student exchanges. A total of 545,000 Chinese students studied overseas in 2016, while 443,000 international students came to China, up 36.2% and 35.1%, respectively.
據李海介紹，我國已經在雙向留學上邁上了新臺階。2016年，出國留學的中國學生達54.5萬人，而來華的國際學生則有44.3萬人，這兩個數字分別增長了36.2%和35.1%。

In addition, the country saw 433,000 overseas returnees in the last year, and they have become a major force that promotes China's education, economy, and culture.
此外，去年共有43.3萬海歸回國，他們已成爲提升我國教育、經濟、文化的重要力量。

By the end of 2016, China established cooperative partnerships with 188 countries and regions, and signed agreements of mutual recognition of degrees with 47 countries and regions.
截至2016年年底，我國與188個國家和地區建立了教育合作關係，並與47個國家和地區簽署了學歷學位互認協議。

The country has also built high-level cultural exchange mechanisms with Russia, the U.S., the U.K., the European Union, France, Indonesia, South Africa, and Germany.
此外，我國也已經與俄羅斯、美國、英國、歐盟、法國、印度尼西亞、南非、德國建立起了高級別人文交流機制。

Cultural communication is now one of the three major diplomatic pillars, together with political mutual trust and economic cooperation.
人文交流現在已與政治互信、經貿合作一道，成爲了我國外交的三大支柱。

Now, more than 170 countries offer Chinese courses, 67 of which have incorporated Chinese into their national education systems. The number of non-native Chinese learners has reached 100 million worldwide.
現在，共有超過170個國家開設了漢語課程，其中67個國家將漢語教學納入國民教育體系當中。在全世界範圍內，母語爲非漢語的學習者的人數已經達到了1億人。