chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (Bo Chi) (11/11/89)
| +---------I __L__ ___- i \ ------I +----+----+ | ___\_\_ | \./ | | -----+- | | | | | __ \/ | --+-- |--- | |---| | I----+----I | I__J/\ | __|__ | | | |---| | | | _____ \ | /| \ | | | L__-| | I I---------J / J \/ | | V | _/ * C h i n a N e w s D i g e s t * (ND Canada Service) -- Nov. 10 (I), 1989 Table of Contents # of Lines Headline News ........................................................... 12 1) Survey Report on the Chinese Students and Scholars in Canada ......... 172 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Headline News North Korean President met with Deng Xiaoping From: "J. Ding" <IZZYQ00@OAC.UCLA.EDU> [source: BEIJING (UPI) November 07, 1989] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- North Korean President KimPIl-Sung met Tuesday with senior leader Deng Xiaoping and expressed concern over South Korea's improved relations with Warsaw Pact countries, and Kim reportedly wants to meet in China with former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Survey Report on the Chinese Students and Scholars in Canada By FCSSC, Oct. 1989 -- via ND special correspondent ------------------------------------------------------------ FCSSC == Federation of Chinese Students and Scholars, Canada == Quan Jia Xue Lian (2,1,2,2) (in Chinese) ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks to the great efforts in distibuting, collecting and sending back the survey questionaires, given by the FCSSC corresponds,Chinese Canadian National Council, World Uni. Service, CBIE and the local FCSSC corresponding Chinese Students and Scholars Associations (CCSA) or groups, the national survey on the Chinese students and scholars in Canada becomes possible. The acknowledgement also goes to the individual Chinese student or scholar who tried his/her best to help fill the questionaires. The survey results are following: 1. Methodology: 4,650 questionaires were sent out, 900 of them were sent back. So that the respoending rate is around 19.35 %. The survey covered 19 places in which the PRC students and scholars mostly reside. They are: Ottawa, Toronto, Kingston, Hamilton, Guelph, London, Waterloo, Windsor, Montreal, Quebec city, Vancouver, Voctoria, Winnipeg, Halifax, Saskatchewan, Edmonton, Calgary, New Brunswick, and St. Jhon's. The responding rates varies from city to city, with Ottawa, Quebec, New Brunswick at the top (~40%), and Toronto, Halifax and Hamilton at the bottom (<10%). 2. Major Statistic Findings: 2.1 General Summary: Sex: male 75.1% female 23.4% unstated 1.3% ------------- Age: 20-25 12.2% 26-30 37.2% 31-35 29.2% 36-40 10.4 41 above 9.9% unstated 0.9% ------------- Marital status: Married 80.3% single 17.6% unstated 1.9% ------------- Dependents in Canada 56.3% " not in Canada 43.7% --intend to bring them to Canada 96.2% not intend to 3.8% 2.2 Immigration status and intention: in Ottawa only: 67% student visa, 22% visitors visa, 28% have the work authorization. 72.7% of the total intend to stay in Canada, 11.1% have no intention to stay (they would like to extend their visa as usual). 15.9% did not state their decisions. For those intending to stay, 85.5% intend to stay as permanent residence, 0.7% as political refugee. 2.3 Funding Source and Adequancy: Private Funding 25.4% non-private sources 70.6% ---------- CIDA 3.8% non-CIDA government 3% universities 57.4% PRC government 3.5% World bank 1.2% other sources 2.1% Missing value 28.8% 2.4 Education background: Current education background: Ph.D 40.7% Master's 31.1% Undergraduate 2% English Lang. 10.3% Research/training 8.1% unstated 7.6% Field of study and Research: Business 0.2% Economics 2.2% Law 0.2% Psychology 0.4% Public relation 0.2% International affairs 2.1% Goegraphy 0.7% Subtotal(Social Science)6.5% ---------------------------- Arts 4.7% ---------------------------- Civil Eng. 2.8% Electrical Eng. 5.7% Computer Eng. 0.5% Mechanical 6.5% Chemical Eng. 2.1% Architecture 0.9% other Eng. 7.2% Subtotal (Engineering) 25.7% -=--------------------------- Biology 5.4% Chemistry 7.1% Math 4.4 Physics 7.9 computer Science 3.5 Biochemistry 0.4 Medical science 4.6 others 0.2 subtotal (Science) 33.5% ----------------------------- Physical Education 0.4% ---------------------------- Agriculture 1.7% ---------------------------- unstated 20.2% ----------------------------- 3.Conclusions: -------------- 1. Chinese students will have positive impacts on Canadian Economy: Almost 80% of PRC students are in Master;s or Ph.D programs, with 2/3 of them are in the age between 25-35 and majorty are in Science and Engineering, We would have an positive impact on the Canadian Economy. 2. The Emergency period is over 3. some remaining issues to be resolved: 3.1 Special financial help for the PRC students and scholars who have not applied for permanent residence but still plan to extend their education in Canada. 3.2 Job placement programe for the coming graduates. 3.3 Immig:80% are married , but 43.7% of them still are separated with the families in China. All of them are willing to bring their families to Canada. BTW, there are more job openings available to Chinese students and scholars in Canada,please check with your local CSSA or FCSSC correspond at your university. Good luck. - Dennis Lu ================================================================================ News Transmission chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (or) -------------------- --------------------- Local Editor: Bo Chi chi@vlsi.waterloo.edu .