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For Wealthy Chinese Students, Studying Abroad Becomes the Norm

China spends a relatively small percentage of its budget on education, ranking 101st of 187 countries included in a recent United Nations Development Program report. That fact, combined with a reverence for the prestige of western nations’ elite schools, has prompted a growing number of wealthy Chinese parents to send their children abroad for high school and college.