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Nearly 610,000 Chinese students attended schools and colleges overseas in 2017. China remains the world's ____ (large) supplier of international students. A majority____the students went to European and North American countries. Countries____ (include) in the Belt and Road Initiative (B&R) became new destinations, with student numbers ____ (rise) by 15.7 percent in 2017. At the same time, about 480,000 graduates returned to China. Since 1978, about 5.2 million Chinese____ (study) abroad and among those ____ graduated about 83.7 percent returned to China.
Meanwhile, a total of 490,000____ (foreign) from 204 countries and regions studied in China is 2017. Students from the Republic of Korea, Thailand and Pakistan were the most numerous, while the United States ranked ____ (four). Students from B&R countries accounted for 64.9 percent of____ total. About 59,000 international students in China ____(support) by Chinese government scholarships.