Scores of Pakistani students register with HEC seeking to return to China, resume studies

Islamabad: Hundreds of Pakistani students have registered with the Higher Education Commission (HEC) seeking to return to China to resume their studies, officials told Gwadar Pro.

The HEC earlier directed students, who want to return to China to resume their education after a gap of several months, to register online.

“There is a huge line of students who want to return to Chiba. Thus shows the quality of the Chinese education system,” said a senior official at the HEC.

He told Gwadar Pro that the students will be put on a priority line to return to China.

“They all will definitely return to China but under a priority list. The HEC will facilitate the Pakistani students,” he added.

The official mentioned that several Pakistani students had already returned to China after an agreement between the two friendly countries.

The official remarked that the HEC had sought fresh information from the students at the request of Chinese authorities.

“Students are advised to submit their information through an online form before 21 July 2022,” he stated,

Last month, the first batch of Pakistani students, who had returned to the country due to the Coronavirus pandemic, returned to China to resume their education.

A special flight of the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) carrying around 100 students left from the New Islamabad International Airport for Xi’an, the capital of Shaanxi Province in central China.

Thousands of Pakistani students enrolled in Chinese universities returned home at the peak of the Coronavirus outbreak in China, which was the ground zero of the COVID-19 outbreak.

For over two years,these Pakistani students could not return to China to resume their education.