Ray is a winter intern on the China desk. She is doing a master's degree in journalism at the University of Hong Kong. Before that, Ray obtained her Bachelor of Business Administration degree at Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
The number of students from South Korea at Chinese universities and language institutes last year fell to less than a quarter of its peak of 73,240 in 2017, amid Seoul’s closer ties to Washington and a decline in China’s image among South Korean youth.
Communist Party officials study President Xi Jinping’s teachings on ‘grass-roots’ outreach and visiting local communities to address complaints – ideas the Chinese leader first promoted 35 years ago.