On May 3, 2012, Liu Jinghui, Sectretary-General of the China Scholarship Council (CSC), revealed that China was considering allowing international students in China to do part-time job. And the preparations of it have already started.
On that very day, Liu Jinghui indicated at Washington international conference that in order to make planning for international students in China, China’s Ministry of Education , Foreign Affairs, Human Resources and Social Security, Public Security and Finance, etc founded a joint conference and convened the first meeting to delibrate this issue at last year.
She said that international students’ doing part-time job in host country, as an international convention, can not only make a profit to cover part of the high cost of studying abroad, but also make international students involved in various social activities and local life. However, this convention has met its systematic problems in China.
It is known that China’s current policy regulates that if an international student wants to be quaified to apply for work visa, he or she must be at least 25 years old, have a bachelor degree or above and a two-year’s working experience at any rate, which means it is very difficult for international students to look for a part-time job in China.
Liu Jinghui said that although the obstacles are plain to see, it is not easy to take steps to adjust because the policy is closely connected to economy and employment status of this country. Nevertheless, despite the difficulty and complexity, we should still strengthen our conviction in that it is of great significance for China’s internationlization that international students come to study in China along with cultural communication and inheritance.
The policy design for international students’ part-time work has been starting from zero and moving forward. And under the coordination of the Education Ministry, everyone of us is doing our utmost to make it happen,” Liu Jinghui said.
(From http://www.edulife.com.cn/Archiver/shownews-97263.html)
