(Renshen July eighth day), August 11, 1872, China's first batch of international students depart for the United States. Chinese Students


the first large-scale study in the United States in early
1868, Yung Wing to the Qing Dynasty his education plan: send juvenile study abroad, first to 120 masterpieces experiments, to send 30 people a year, 4 years to complete; limited to the 12-15 year-old male juvenile, 15-year period of study; firm establishment of international students in the United States, located deputy warden, management students learning and life; allocate some funding from the customs revenue, as the cost of international students . This "plan" to get the support of Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang, 1870 were approved by the Qing government. the
1871 years, Yung Wing started recruiting students in Shanghai, cast in juvenile first in Shanghai into a preparatory school, tutoring English. Then people think good and bad and unpredictable, international students abroad to study all civilian children, not the children of the royal bureaucracy.
1872 11 (Tongzhi eleven years early July 28) Ch'en Lan-pin, led by Yung Wing the first students Liangguo Yan, Zhan Tianyou, 30, depart for the United States.
every year since then to send 30 people to 1875, 120 students sent out. The first batch of 30 students by Ch'en Lan-pin any supervision, Yung Wing vice oversight.