对很多人来说出国留学仍是不错的投资

Statistics show that last year, most Chinese students studying abroad who finished their studies chose to return home to pursue their career goals. Beijing Youth Daily commented on Thursday:

统计数据显示，去年大多数中国留学生在完成学业后选择回国追求自己的职业目标。周四《北京青年报》发表如下评论:

The backflow of overseas students, on the one hand, should be able to contribute more intellectual resources to China. On the other hand, it also indicates that against the backdrop of globalization and industrialization of higher education, students who pursue overseas education are no longer rare. They too have to take part in the tight competition for jobs and some have lost their elite status in the eyes of many.

海外留学生的回流，一方面应该能够为中国提供更多的知识资源。另一方面，它也表明，在高等教育全球化和工业化的背景下，追求海外教育的留学生已经不再是稀缺资源。他们也必须参与到紧张的就业竞争中，并且在很多人眼中留学生已经失去了精英地位。

In 2007, among all Chinese students who studied abroad (over 144,000), about 44,000 returned home after they finished their studies. However, at least 400,000 of the about 523,700 overseas students who graduated by 2015 have returned to China.

2007年，在所有的中国学生留学(超过144000)中，有大约44000人在完成学业后回国。然而，在2015年的523700名毕业留学生中至少有400000多人返回中国。

The fact that not all Chinese graduates can guarantee a decent job does not necessarily mean overseas higher education is not worth pursuing. Many Chinese students are still inclined to apply for overseas universities for further education, because they believe that studying abroad is a worthwhile investment that will benefit them greatly in the near future.

事实上虽然并不是所有的中国毕业生都能保证一份体面的工作，但这并不意味着海外高等教育不在值得追求。许多中国学生仍倾向于申请海外大学进行继续教育，因为他们认为出国留学是一个有价值的投资，在不久的将来这会使他们极大的受益。

Apart from the unbalanced allocation of quality educational resources, students' higher expectations of college education as a springboard for their future have also fueled the studying-abroad fervor in the country. They pursue not only good jobs and decent salaries after graduation, but also opportunities to improve their English and way of thinking, as well as expanding their academic horizons while in college.

除了分配不均衡的优质教育资源，学生将大学教育看成未来跳板的高期望同样推动了出国留学的热情。毕业后，他们追求的不仅是好的工作和不错的薪水，也是为了追求提高英语水平和思维方式的机会，以及在大学期间扩大学术视野。

In this sense, overseas education's attraction to Chinese students should prompt the country to make concrete efforts to expedite education reform.

从这个意义上讲，海外教育对中国学生的吸引力应该促使中国采取切实措施努力加快教育改革。