INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
For two decades, it was popular for many Chinese families to send their children on “study tours” overseas – most often to the United
States – during the summer.
The programmes generally involved summer camps jointly organised by American universities and language
institutions, as well as visits to colleges, museums and tourist attractions.
In 2019, before the Covid-19 pandemic, around 1.3 million
Chinese students spent part of their summer holidays studying overseas, according to a report by...