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All institutes of higher education in China are open to enrolment by students from overseas, according to Beijing Youth Daily. Sources at the Chinese Ministry of Education said more than 400 colleges and universities had enrolled overseas students by the middle of this year, adding that their number has been increasing by 5,000 each year. The largest groups of students come from the Republic of Korea, Japan, the United States, Indonesia and Germany. The majority of past overseas students came to learn Chinese, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and Chinese opera, said education officials. Now they can choose any area of study, so more and more are opting to major in other subjects.