Island relaxes education policies to attract more candidates and arrest decline

Since 2016, the number of students from the mainland enrolling at universities in Taiwan has declined every year. As a result, the island's education authority is relaxing its policies to attract more students.

The number of students from the mainland studying for bachelor's degrees fell to 1,693 in 2016 from 2,024 a year earlier.

Last year, the number fell to 944, a year-on-year decline of 44 percent, according to the University Entrance Committee for Mainland Chinese Students in Taiwan.