For students, US still holds strong allure

NEW YORK - International admissions by universities and colleges in the United States have shown signs of flattening in the past two years, but Fan Yilan, a second-year student at the University of Texas at Austin, still feels a strong growth of Chinese enrollment against the general trend.

"In China, it's not in decline at all," Fan, from Beijing, said. "It's the opposite; it's increasing. More Chinese students are seeking education in the US."

The Institute of International Education of the US said in November that more than 350,700 students from China were enrolled for higher education in the country in the 2016-17 academic year, 6.8 percent more than in the previous year.