Overseas education big lure

SHANGHAI: Foreign educational institutions are holding seminars and exhibitions to lure more Chinese youngsters to study abroad.

They are being helped by local educational consulting agencies as more parents are eager to send their children abroad.

"We have held six exhibitions this month and attracted about 100 foreign institutions and more than 1,000 students to the events," Jiao Yuying, press officer of the Zhejiang New Orient International Consulting Co, based in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, said.