In March 2020, after visa processing was suspended due to the epidemic, nearly 500,000 international students started long online courses. Because of the epidemic, they were unable to return to China to complete their studies. Recently, the good news comes that some Chinese universities have started to send emails to collect the willingness of international students to return to the Chinese university(Policy Prediction about Arriving in China for International Students During the COVID-19).

Policies of different Chinese universities on international students returning to China

We have observed that some universities have updated notices about overseas students returning to school, the following four universities are just for your reference.

1. Shanghai International Studies University

Students who are about to enter China will have to quarantine in managed facilities for 7 days and spend 14 days for health monitoring outside school. After the quarantine starts, please fill in the International Student Entry Information Registration Form. Students can choose their health monitoring accommodation. If students choose SISU Guest House, the cost is RMB 248 each day (breakfast included). Lunch and dinner would be extra, which charges RMB 30 per meal.

Students are required to record their body temperature during their health monitoring and take a nucleic acid test on the 13th day of their health monitoring. Students must fill out the Application Form for School Returning and send it to the specified email address by 16:00 on the day before returning.

Note: the registration instructions are just for international freshmen students at SISU in the fall semester of 2022.

2. Ningbo University

1. You will be required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 with a WHO-recognized vaccine or one recognized by the Chinese government. NBU now also requires all international students applying to come to Ningbo University to receive a COVID-19 booster vaccination as soon as they are eligible before departure.

2. Purchase comprehensive medical insurance in China.

3. After landing in China at the designated entry port, the local authorities will require compliance with quarantine measures. If entering through Shanghai, a 7+3 days mandatory quarantine. 3 days in Shanghai and 4 in Jiaxing of Zhejiang.

4. After being released from quarantine, students will be transferred to Ningbo via pre-arranged transportation to Jiangbei District in Ningbo. You will be placed under a 3-day home observation and daily health monitoring within the 3 days. During the transportation to Ningbo, you will not be allowed to deviate from the designated route.

5. Expenses related to the aforementioned quarantine measures must be borne by students themselves except in cases of positive PCR test for COVID-19 for which internal insurance terms and conditions apply. The estimated cost of quarantine in Shanghai, Jiaxing, and Ningbo is RMB 500 per day, which is subject to the actual arrangements of the local CDC and hotels.

Note: Due to the uncertainty of the epidemic, at present we only allow all the freshmen to come to Ningbo University in September 2022. We expect all of you to come to the campus for face-to-face teaching.

3. Wuhan University

Overseas students can enter campus with a student visa according to the quarantine policies.

l  Please prepare the Wechat app and confirm its normal function;

l  Please join the "Entry" Wechat group in attachments of emails according to your category, and change the group name card to your student number;

l  Tell us your arrival time, flight, and destination city (date and specific time) on the Wechat group after August 20.

4. Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Currently, the university is investigating your intention of returning to SJTU. Please finish the survey ASAP before 23:59 (GMT+8）28st July.

The survey link: https://wj.sjtu.edu.cn/q/NaW5AZqX

Note：

1. You can only submit the survey once, please fill it out carefully. If wrongly, you can withdraw and modify your content.

2. The survey only applies to the student who receives this email, forwarding is invalid.

International students who are allowed to return to Chinese universities

Two years after the border was closed to foreign students, thousands of international students from more than 10 countries have recently been allowed to return to Chinese universities with the loosening of anti-epidemic policies.

Sri Lanka

After 150 Russian students arrived in Shenzhen from Moscow on a chartered flight on April 30, 2022, on June 25, 164 Sri Lankan medical students who had been stranded abroad due to the novel coronavirus pandemic since the beginning of 2020 arrived at Tianjin on a special chartered flight of Sri Lanka Airlines. The Chinese embassy in Sri Lanka tweeted the news and said it would help more international students "return to their universities in China as soon as possible".

Pakistan

A special chartered flight has delivered the first batch of 105 Pakistani students to Xi'an on June 20, 2022, where they will undergo quarantine before returning to Chinese universities in different cities, according to Pakistan's The Express Tribune daily(First batch of Pakistani students return to China after Covid restrictions).

Thailand

A few days ago, a spokesman for Thailand's foreign ministry said that Beijing has begun accepting applications for entry from Thai students after an agreement was reached in February 2022. Thailand has 28,608 international students in China, second only to South Korea with 50,600(Thai Students Allowed to Return to Some Universities in China).

There are various indications that China has accelerated the pace of returning to domestic campuses for international students stranded abroad due to the epidemic. China began accepting foreign students from all over the world to return with conditions in April 2022, and this plan will reach its climax before the start of the semester on September 1. If the outbreak in China is further controlled, more international students are expected to return to China. Of course, we will continue to update more Chinese universities' policies for international students returning to China. You can pay more attention to our articles to get more information about studying in China. At the same time, welcome to join the tribe of CUCAS and share your opinion about studying in China.