UK education minister meets media in China

People Daily reporter: As you said, there are 100,000 Chinese students studying in the UK and only 3,000 UK students in China, what are the reasons for such disparity?

Background:

In the accompaniment with UK Prime Minister David Cameron's two-day state visit to China, Gove attended the fifth Annual China-UK Ministerial Summit in Beijing, where he agreed a number of agendas to promote UK-China educational collaboration. These include:

- A joint program to train 1,000 new Chinese language teachers in the next five years to promote Mandarin learning in the UK signed between the Office of Chinese Language Councils International (the Hanban) and Specialist Schools and Academies Trust (SSAT)

- A new UK-China Partners in Education Program to fund higher and further education institutional partnerships

- An agreement to increase the number of UK students studying in China

Reporter and editor: Feng Xin

Photographer: Sun Peng

Producer: Flora Yue