On May 16th, the Second Forum on Educational Management of International Students in China, held by School of International Education (SIE) of South China University of Technology(SCUT), was inaugurated in the south campus of SCUT. Nearly 70 people attended the forum including officials from China Association for International Education and Department of Education of Guangdong Province and associations for international education in Beijing, Tianjin and Guangdong, and the experts from 37 universities consisting of other members of Excellence 9, Peking University and Colleges and universities in Guangdong. All the participants discussed some new ideas and methods, under the new situation, in educational management for international students. Dand Zhi, the vice president of SCUT, Liu Baoli, the former inspector in Department of International Cooperation and Exchanges of Ministry Education and He Xiangmin, the secretary general of Association for International Education, attended the forum and delivered speeches. And the forum was hosted by SIE Dean An. 

On the afternoon in the same day, nearly 20 overseas students from Excellence 9 unversities gathered together and a recitation contest themed by My Impression on China was held. The participants talked about their own profound impression on China. As an old saying in a Chinese poem, under the vast and empty sky, the homesickness may grow stronger. Vietnamese students Mo Hebing and Huang Jiayao and Thai studnets Su Huiru and Lin Yiling expressed their mixed feelings about China where their ancestors ever lived.

These four overseas students bear the same identity - ethnic Chinese. When they were young, their parents always told them,you are the kids of China, when you grow up, you must go back to China and visit our hometown for me. Now they set their foot on this land, study and live in SCUT, realizing the dreams of their forefathers. China in their eyes is quite different from the one described by their ancestors. Dramatic changes have been taken place: muddy roads were replaced by the broad ones; life in China is in a modern style; and the high-speed rail become the new and popular way of transportation. However, the accents remain the same, and they never stop missing their hometown. Wherever we are, China is always the dream of ethnic Chinese.

In addition to recitation, the overseas students also gave the performances in Chinese calligraphy and Chinese songs, expressing their feelings of living in China. The word said by Ralph and Zhang Miaoxiang from Harbin Institute of Technology represents the voice of every overseas students,we love her! Thumbs up for her. After raiting by the judges, Mo Hebing, Su Huiru, Lin Yiling, Huang Jiayao and Xuan Yifeng, Fangmeng and Du Pingfu from Qiongqing University won the first prizes in the contest.

Time：2015-05-16