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African Chinese
African Chinese are an ethnic group of Chinese with partial or total ancestry from any of the ethnic groups of Africa. By 2020, various estimates have came up for the number of Africans living in China. One source estimated 500,000+ Africans living in China with majority living in Guangzhou.[1] Other source puts the number at 16,000[2][3]The Public Security Bureau of Guangzhou, puts the official number of Africans living in Guangzhou as 4553 in 2020.[4] and in 2019 it was 13,652, claiming that the population of africans in China had always been rather low and decreasing over the years.[5] Education in ChinaDevelopment Reimagined reports that China hosted 74,011 students from 24 African countries in 2017, thanks to overall growth of 258% from 2011 to 2017. By 2022, the top African student population were from Ethiopia, Nigeria, Congo, Kenya, and Tanzania.[6] In 2018, the Chinese government announced at the triennial Forum on China-Africa Cooperation that China would increase its scholarship offerings to African students from 30,000 in 2015 to 50,000. According to the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, 81,562 African students studied in China in 2018, a 770% increase compared to 1996. China is now the second-largest African student-hosting country, behind France and United States.[7] In 2020, according to UNESCO's Global Annual Education Report, China offered 12,000 university scholarships to African students for the next academic year, to support their studies at Chinese universities.[8] China was predicted to host more Nigerians than either the UK or the US[9] by 2025.[6] Notable peopleSee alsoReferences
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