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CIRCULAR OF THE GENERAL OFFICE OF THE STATE COUNCIL CONCERNING MATTERS RELATING TO STUDENTS STUDYING ABROAD

    The vast numbers of students studying abroad love their motherland and are
willing to devote themselves to the prosperity and might of the Chinese
nation. They study hard and many of them have achieved remarkable success and
won honour abroad. Students studying abroad are the treasures of the State.
The Party and Government have always earnestly cared for, united with and
educated the mass of students studying abroad. The motherland wishes that they
can succeed in their studies and come home to make contributions and
achievements. With a view to implementing the spirit of the instructions of
the Party Central Committee on the work for going abroad to study, further
stepping up the work and serving better the cause of the socialist
construction of our country, a circular concerning matters relating to
students studying abroad is hereby made as follows:

    1. Students studying abroad are welcome to come home for a job. Those
studying abroad at public expense shall have an obligation to return to and
serve the country after succeeding in their studies. All students studying
abroad are welcome to come home regardless their political positions in the
past. They may have a short stay for academic exchange and cooperation, or
visit relatives and friends, or take a holiday. All those who made improper
remarks or did wrong things abroad are exempt from investigation. Even if
those who participated in the anti-Chinese Government organizations and were
engaged in activities of endangering the security, honour and interests of the
State, so long as they can withdraw from such organizations and no longer be
engaged in the anti-Government activities which violate the Constitution and
laws of our country, all of them are also welcome to come home for a job.

    2. Students studying abroad who hold an expired common service passport or
a common service passport for one exit-entry trip may be permitted to extend
or renew their passports. Applications to change a common service passport
into a common private passport may be accepted. Those who have acquired
foreign nationality shall offer an application to renounce their Chinese
nationality, which shall be handled in accordance with the Nationality Law of
our country, and they shall be regarded as Chinese of foreign nationality.

    3. Applications submitted by students studying abroad for extension or
renewal of their passports, or for renunciation of Chinese nationality shall
be accepted. If they are involved in financial and other unsettled affairs
with the originally sending departments or units, the students studying abroad
shall seek a settlement through consultation with such departments or units.
This will not affect the completion of the above-mentioned formalities.

    4. Students studying abroad may leave the country again after a short stay
home without renewing the formalities for approval, provided that they hold
our country's valid passports bearing foreign re-entry visas.

    5. Sending units shall keep in close contact with students studying abroad
and take the initiative to care for their work and lives. Returned students
may, according to the principle of "mutual choice", go back to their original
work units or seek jobs for themselves, may work in enterprises with foreign
investment, or establish their own enterprises. Exchange and cooperation with
foreign countries is encouraged. Returned students may concurrently hold other
positions abroad with the content of the units to which they belong.

    6. Family members of students studying abroad shall be allowed to visit
them abroad if they so apply for. The public security organs shall examine the
applications according to the Law of the People's Republic of China on the
Control of the Exit and Entry of Citizens.

    7. Each locality and each department shall, in the spirit of this
Circular, adopt specific measures to make it convenient for students studying
abroad to come home, simplify entry and exit formalities and make proper
arrangements for work and lives of returned students.

    8. In places where returned students live concentratedly, local
governments, departments concerned or social organizations concerned shall, in
the light of actual need, set up service institutions for students studying
abroad, which help students studying abroad deal with relevant affairs and
provide them with various services.

    9. Our country's embassies and consulates abroad shall represent the State
in handling matters relating to studying abroad. They shall protect the
legitimate rights and interests of students studying abroad, help them in
their study, research, work and daily lives, relieve them of worries and solve
their problems and timely introduce our country's condition. Education shall
be given to students studying abroad for the purpose of urging them to observe
the laws of the residing countries, studying hard, respecting themselves,
getting on well with people in the residing countries, loving the motherland,
maintaining the honour and interests of the country and wining glory for the
country.