What is the purpose of studying abroad from the international students sent by the Qing government to the small international students in Britain today?

The first international student in China was Hong Rong (H? Ng), a native of Xiangshan, Guangdong Province, is a countryman of Sun Yat-sen, born in 1828, 38 years older than Sun Yat-sen. Yung Wing was the first China student who graduated from Yale University in the United States, and was also a person who vigorously promoted the cause of studying abroad in modern times. He is called the father of international students.

It is a coincidence that Yung Hong was able to study abroad, because when he was seven years old, he went to Macau with his father and began to study in Macau. After Hong Kong was ceded to Britain, Rong Hong went to Hong Kong to study, and then went to the United States to study with President Brown and his wife. Daoguang was admitted to Yale College for thirty years (1850) and became an American citizen two years later.

Yung Wing

Yes, Yung Hong is an American. He was born in China, studied in Macau and Hongkong, and later studied in the United States. He also graduated from Yale University, a famous American university. He received a comprehensive westernization education and was closer to foreigners ideologically. I believe that if Yung Yong lived in the United States, it should not be difficult to find a job with his education, but Yung Yong did not stay in the United States after graduation.

China was in the late Qing Dynasty. It experienced the failure of the Opium War and the vigorous Taiping Heavenly Kingdom movement in China. The war continued, and internal troubles and foreign invasion constantly squeezed the corrupt Qing government. Rong Hong has been in contact with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Westernization Movement and the Reform Movement. But the most important thing is that he urged Li Hongzhang and Zeng Guofan to persuade the Qing government to send 30 international students every year, from 187 1 to 6540.

At that time, people of insight in China were thinking about how to save the Chinese nation. Revolutionary Party members with radical ideas, such as Sun Yat-sen, supporters of the Westernization Movement, such as Li Hongzhang, Zhang Zhidong, Zeng Guofan and Zuo, reformers of the Reform Movement, such as Emperor Guangxu, Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao, including Yung Yung, an American at that time, also took an active part in China's reform and revolutionary cause.

Westernization Movement

Few people know that in 190 1, the revolutionaries planned to launch an uprising in Guangzhou and decided to elect Hong Rong as the president of the government after the event, but Hong Rong refused, not only because he was an American, but also because he was ceded to his fellow countryman Sun Yat-sen and actively participated in the planning of the uprising in the United States. Although he didn't succeed in the end, Hong Rong.

The official expenditure of the Qing government sent 120 international students abroad in order to let them study advanced science and technology abroad and then return to China to participate in construction. There are many celebrities in this group, just name them: Tsai Shou Kee (president of Beiyang University), Cai Tingkan (naval officer), Zhan Tianyou (railway engineer), (former president of Tsinghua) and Tang (the first cabinet prime minister of the Republic of China).

Qing government students studying in the United States

The average age of these international students is 12 years old. Originally, they planned to study in the United States for 15 years, but it was interrupted for various reasons. I only studied for nine years, and then I was forced to stop. Only a few of them have completely finished their studies. When the Qing government wanted to recall these young students, some of them were unwilling to go home. Except for those who died of illness and were repatriated, most of them returned to China, making them the first batch of formal international students in China.

Since the Qing government began to study abroad officially, countless China students have studied abroad in various ways, either officially or at their own expense, to learn advanced foreign science, technology, engineering and cultural knowledge. Most of them have returned to China after finishing their studies and devoted their lives to the advice of the country. Their names are: Qian Xuesen, Deng Jiaxian and so on.

140 years later, it has been 40 years since the reform and opening up, and studying abroad has become very common. According to statistics, in 20 17 alone, the number of overseas students in China exceeded 600,000, and all the overseas students from China added up to millions. Studying abroad has become a very common academic activity, and a large number of international students choose to stay abroad to work and live after completing their studies.

China dynasty

China has stood in the east of the world for more than 5,000 years and has always been in a leading position in the world. For example, in the heyday of Han and Tang dynasties, even in the early Qing dynasty, it was the world leader, and it was only in the industrial revolution that it began to lag behind the world. In the late Qing Dynasty, students were sent to all parts of the world to study advanced science and technology. There's a saying? Control foreigners like foreigners? It means learning advanced things from foreigners to balance foreigners, but now, studying abroad has become a free academic exchange.

However, according to news reports, there are15,000 young overseas students in Britain, with an average age of about 14. Studying in Britain at such a young age is no longer a free academic exchange. 14 is the age of junior high school in China, and even the nine-year compulsory education in China has not been completed. What is compulsory education? It means that all children with China nationality must receive education, but the education of these10.5 million British students is obviously different from that of China. The only advantage of being educated in Britain since childhood is that you can integrate into British society more quickly.

Bian Xiao really doesn't understand why today, there are still so many middle-class people who prefer to spend hundreds of thousands of tuition fees every year to send their children abroad to study. Why is the moon in foreign countries more round than that in China? Or is foreign education better than China? China is an ancient country with a civilization of 5,000 years. Not only in 200-300 years, but in economy, science and technology and military for thousands of years. Moreover, it won't be long before China returns to the first place in the world, and it can't keep up with its splendid civilization of 5,000 years. But what is the reason for sending their teenage children abroad for education? You have China's face. Even if you immigrate, you can't change the face of Asians and become a minority. The so-called education has no borders and technology has no borders, which is a joke. If you look at the suppression of Huawei and ZTE by the United States, the premise of no boundaries is that you will always fall behind.

British epidemic

Look at the chaos in Hong Kong that lasted for a year last year. The root cause is education. Even Hong Kong, 40 years after its return to China, will be in turmoil from China. Because there is something wrong with education in Hong Kong. Chinese sons and daughters are the future of the motherland and the hope of the nation. If you have never studied your nine-year compulsory education since childhood and studied foreign education, will such children have feelings for the motherland when they grow up? Will you be friendly to China? Will it be like those elementary school students, middle school students, high school students and college students with incendiary bombs in Hong Kong?

The state should legally stipulate that all children with China nationality must receive nine-year compulsory education in China, which will be extended to 13 years in the future. This must be stipulated by law. Compulsory education is the basic education that every student in China must receive. If this is also learned abroad, what does this child mean to China? Will children who receive basic education abroad be from China in the future?

British students studying abroad

For these 65,438+5,000 British students, their parents appealed to the China government to take them back by charter flight. Theoretically, there is nothing wrong, because they are currently China citizens and have not been naturalized in Britain. However, the most basic truth is whether to be patriotic or not, but this is not the case. Judging from the feelings of a big country, the story of farmers and snakes is staged all the time.

National charter flights can pick up these children, and parents of all children have to bear all the expenses. At the same time, the state should file all the files of these children and parents. The most important thing is to legislate from the legal level to prohibit all teenagers from receiving compulsory education abroad. Universities can study abroad, and they must study at home after graduating from high school. Since it is your choice to leave this country, the country also has the right to choose to refuse.

So what is the purpose of studying abroad?

Obviously, the sentence of a hundred years still applies: learn from foreigners and control them. Is to learn from others' strengths and make up for your own shortcomings. The Chinese nation is a hardworking, studious, hardworking and forever struggling nation. With a history of 5,000 years, it is impossible to lead the world by only two or three hundred years. Sooner or later, we will return to the top of the world.