CURRENT SITUATION OF OVERSEAS CHINESE STUDENTS RETURNING TO THE MAINLAND FROM INDONESIA

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 20, 2001
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• Publication Date: October 28, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
-COUNTRY China
SUBJECT Current Situation of Overseas Chinese Students
Returning to the Mainland From Indonesia
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2. The processing of overseas Chinese students from Indonesia consists normally
of the following stages:
a. Application at, and screening by, the Enbassy of Communist China at
Djakarta.
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b. Preparatory training in special schools set up for the purpose.
(1) The students usually travel in a group of fifty or even a hundred
and are met in Hong Kong by a Communist Party officer and accompanied
by him and his entourage en route to Canton. Little time is allowed
them in Hong Kong, even if they want to contact their relatives.
(2) The schools are known in Chinese as Hua-chfiao Sheng-hsueh yu-pei
pan (i.e., classes for advanced education for overseas Chinese) and
are located in Canton, Wuhan, Peking, Shanghai and possibly in other
large cities.
(3) In these classes two subjects are taught intensively: Chinese language
(Kuo-yii) and party principles. Students who are already proficient
in Kuo-yu are given training in the Russian language.
(4) The training period varies in individual cases, from three months to
one and one-half years.
3. No accurate statistical figures are available in Hong Kong on the ratio of
students being assigned to various types of schools. According to a student
from Sumatra, who withdrew because of illness, about one half have been
assigned to political training institutes outside of Canton. The trend seems
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to be to get them out of Canton as soon as possible. Very few are assigned
to medical schools.
3.
Practically no latitude is given the students in the selection of a school.
Even local party leaders have little voice in the matter.
The areas of concentration in the assignment of students after graduation
seem to be the Northwest and Central China., i.e., Honan and Hupeh provinces.
Thus far none have written from the Northeast. Canton and Shanghai newspapers
available in Hong Kong have published no vital information about their
assignments.
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