Research Hotspot and Trends of International Students' Education in China

Abstract

This article used SATI3.2 software to process 488 documents related to international students' education from China Knowledge Network Database (CNKI). The collected data was from 163 core Chinese journals, published from 2009 to 2022. By using the visualized data quantitatively, it presented the current status of the main research hotspots of international student education. The influence of international education on China's economy and the role of Chinese cultural communication will remain a hot research topic in the field. Countries along the Belt and Road are and will be the driving force for the increase of students studying in China. The population of international students is increasing sharply and their needs in hosting universities are getting diverse, however, international students in China are an understudied population, and more research needs to be done on this group. we suggested that Chinese scholars should gradually shift from focusing on policy to concentrating on international students themselves at Chinese universities.