US leads pack for Chinese students

As the number of Chinese students heading overseas for education continues to grow, and as the choice of destinations becomes more diverse, the United States continues to be preferred, according to a report by an educational institute.

The Open Doors Report, released by the Institute of International Education in the US in November last year, showed that nearly 330,000 Chinese studied in the US during the 2015-16 academic year, accounting for one-third of the country's international students.

China has been the largest source of foreign students in the US for seven consecutive years.