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Colleges tell stranded international students to prepare for return to China
Published on: 2021-11-15
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Two international universities in China have told their overseas students to prepare for a return to campus as early as March, after they were shut out of the country because of the pandemic.
 

While there has been no official announcement on when China’s borders will reopen to foreign students, Duke Kunshan University in Suzhou and New York University Shanghai have both sent out emails saying they could be allowed back on campus in time for the next semester.
 

China’s borders have been closed to most foreigners since March 2020, with special exemptions granted for work or family reasons. That has left many of the country’s half a million international students stranded overseas and unable to attend classes in person.
 

“The DKU leadership understands that China is now working on a detailed plan to facilitate international students’ safe entry to the Chinese mainland. Early indications suggest that this procedure, once finalised, will allow students to enter gradually in groups over time to ensure suitable and sufficient quarantine measures,” according to the email, which was posted on Twitter on Monday by a reporter with Duke University’s student newspaper, The Chronicle.
 

There was no date for when students might be able to start applying for visas or when they might be able to enter China, but the email said the progress was “encouraging”.
 

International students received a similar email from NYU Shanghai on Monday, saying it was confident they would be able to attend campus next semester. Sent by David Pe, the dean of students, it said they should work with their academic advisers in the coming month to register for classes in Shanghai, get vaccinated, and begin looking at direct flights. The email, which was also posted on Twitter, said students would have to complete a 21-day quarantine period before the end of January.
 

An overseas student officer with NYU Shanghai confirmed the advice for students to prepare to return, but said there was no date yet for that to happen.
 

“Students will be required to undergo a 14+7 quarantine, with the first two weeks to be carried out at government-designated venues and the last week of self-quarantine at other venues. Students are expected to bear the costs themselves,” said the student officer, who declined to be named.
 

国际学生现在可以回到中国了!

自2020年3月以来,由于与COVID-19有关的边境关闭,国际学生一直被锁在中国境外。近期收到的好消息是中国已经有两所大学分别向国际学生发布了消息:

昆山杜克大学

亲爱的昆山杜克大学学生和家长,
 

我们希望你们都平安无事,我们很高兴在家庭周末期间与家人联系。
 

我们希望与大家分享,我们在不断努力将国际学生带到中国,在杜克昆山大学(Duke Kunshan University)的校园体验的过程中取得了令人鼓舞的进展。
 

DKU领导层了解到,中国目前正在制定一个详细的计划,以促进国际学生安全进入中国大陆。早期迹象表明,这一程序一旦敲定,将允许学生在一段时间内逐步分批入境,以确保采取适当和充分的检疫措施。
 

虽然我们渴望尽快欢迎国际学生进入校园,但我们不能肯定地说当局何时会启动这一程序。然而,我们认为这一进展令人鼓舞。因此,我们要求国际学生开始准备进入中国的必要签证申请材料,尽管他们在收到DKU的进一步通知之前不应该提交任何文件。
 

此外,在有条件的情况下,我们强烈要求学生接受Covid-19疫苗,如果他们还没有这样做的话。虽然中国当局没有说明这将是对回国的国际学生的要求,但我们认为接种疫苗是对我们的学生的一种适当的预防措施。
 

我们鼓励我们的社区做好准备,当政府真的推出其政策和程序来遣返国际学生时,尽快做出反应。
 

请放心,DKU的领导层一直与中国高层当局以及美国驻上海领事馆和美国官员保持沟通,以便随时了解任何可能影响我们学生及其家庭的潜在政策变化。我们将在收到进一步的更新信息时提供给你们。
 

纽约大学上海分校

我们现在非常坚信,你在中国的入境将在未来三周内得到批准,你将能够在下学期亲自到上海上课。
 

相应地,你应该这样做:
 

1.与你的学术顾问合作,在下个月的注册期间注册上海的课程(除非你之前已经被批准外出学习)
 

2.开始计划你将乘坐哪架飞机前往中国(在收到官方批准之前,你不应该购买机票)。请注意:
 

a.应该是从你现在所在的国家直接飞往中国,没有转机。
 

b.你需要全面接种疫苗,并有证据证明已经过了两周以上的时间。
 

c.你应该尽快计划来(以防止像我们去年冬天在许多国家看到的那样出现新的COVID高峰的风险)
 

d.你应该计划在1月底之前完成你的21天隔离期。

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