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PKU Shenzhen Graduate School and PHBS open registration
2015-08-20 10:53:42
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Foreign students at the registration event of the HSBC Business School yesterday. Sun Yuchen

AS the summer vacation comes to an end, Peking University (PKU) Shenzhen Graduate School opened registration with an event attended by about 100 overseas students of the HSBC Business School yesterday.
 

In the early hours of the registration day, over a dozen students were in line getting information about programs along with school brochures and subway maps.
 

The fall semester saw a total of 73 exchange students and more than 30 full-time students enrolling for programs in the HSBC Business School, located near the western end of Shenzhen University Town.
 

The overseas students are mainly from European countries, the U.S., Australia, South Africa and India, according to Bai Ruojing, a PKU Shenzhen Graduate School staff member.
 

Olivia, from Russia, is a full-time student majoring in finance. “I’ve heard about Shenzhen many times,” she said, adding that she has visited Shenzhen and toured around China because of her parents’ business.Olivia first came to China 20 years ago, she said.Most of the other overseas students hadn’t visited China before, and had arrived just a few days earlier.

“I arrived yesterday,” said Anastasia, from Russia, who came to China for the first time. Anastasia took the flight from Moscow and later took a ferry in Hong Kong, where she met a Portuguese girl heading for PKU Shenzhen Graduate School as well.
 

“To open boundaries and have more opportunities,” said Anastasia, when asked what she hoped to achieve in Shenzhen. She said she hadn’t heard about the city until she applied to the school.
 

Eliott and Arnaud, two Belgian exchange students, also said they weren’t familiar with Shenzhen until recently.“It is big. People here are nice,” said Eliott.They had previously studied in the Louvain School of Management, Belgium, and will be in Shenzhen for around six months.
 

Almost every student cited Shenzhen’s economic growth as the reason they came to the city.

“It is in the south. It is a clean and beautiful city. The living standard is high too,” said a student named Max.Having been to Taiwan for an exchange program while earning a bachelor’s degree two years ago, Max said he wanted to improve his Chinese here.
 

Peking University’s School of Transnational Law also opened registration to overseas students Aug. 16.In total, the school accepted four overseas exchange students and two full-time students, Bai said. The four exchange students come from Finland, Hungary, Germany and the U.S.

From: Shenzhen Daily
 Title :PKU SZ Graduate School  opens  registration