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…
