Research On The Factors To Quantity Growth Of International Students In China In The View Of International Services Trade

Chinese international students education achieved a rapid development period which never happened in the past history. The quantity growth of Chinese international students sparks research interests among economists, educators, socialists, demographers, etc. Those scholars addressed types of factors such as economic development, trade relationship, geography, population, employment, scholarship, education quality, tuition fee, study environment, culture, personal interests, etc. Further, they interpreted the quantity growth of Chinese international students in the views of Push-pull theory, Immigration theory, Diamond Model, Trade Gravity Model, and systematic methods, and so on.As a type of products, the consumers of education for Chinese international students are students from oversea countries, meanwhile the suppliers are education located in the territory of China. In the view of geography, it is a type of education service consumed by foreign students in Chinese mainland. With reference to terms of GATT and WTO, education for Chinese international students comes with all the properties and features of international service trade. Therefore, education for Chinese international students can be confirmed to be one of the international service trade, which means the analysis theories and methods for international service trade are available to the analysis and study of education for Chinese international students.In this paper, subjective judgment comes with objective analysis, and qualitative analysis comes with quantitative analysis. In the meanwhile, ISM, AHP, Gravity model, multiple regression analysis, SWOT method are comprehensively applied to the study. ISM addresses the structural analysis of the subjectively-summarized factors related to the quantity of international students. AHP calculates the contribution proportions of those factors to the quantity of international students. The Gravity model with objective data verifies those above subjective conclusions in the views of objective facts. Finally, SWOT method integrates all those above study into what is the Comparative advantage of education for Chinese international students.Some conclusions come up with those analysis. The economy development of the host country, education quality, cultural effect and students recruitment marketing form the inner advantage of international service trade of study in China. Language difference, tuition fee and price index are the inner disadvantage. The population of the students’nation, the economy development of the students’ nation and past students’effect show the external opportunities. Geography is the external threat.