The Education Bureau of Dalian, a coastal city in northeast China's Liaoning Province, announced on Wednesday that foreign children will be admitted to the city's designated middle and primary schools.
The bureau on May 30 designated some well-equipped regular middle and primary schools in the city to teach the children of foreign business people who have invested in Dalian or foreigners holding professional visas.
The schools are required to give supplementary lessons to foreign children who have difficulty understanding lessons in Chinese.
The city already has a special school, for Japanese children, and is planning to open two more schools, for children from the Republic of Korea and English-speaking countries respectively.
Dalian was one of the first cities in China to open itself to the outside world in the 1980s, and to date, the city has had more than 6,000 long-term foreign residents.
(Xinhua News Agency June 5, 2003)
