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hi Krithika and everybody...

as i told you i will post some more information regarding schooling for the foreigner children. Yesterday, i talk to one of my friend residing near Sanghai, her daughter is in second grade studying in international school. Teachers are good, all from english speaking countries, but the main thing i asked about the fee, i was totally surprised to know that for kindergarten kid fee is nearly twenty thousand USD. I don't know about US, but i feel this is too much. Anyone if knows about US fee let me know. I will keep posting if i get any information.

Hi Padma,

The amount you've quoted is astronomical !!

I send both my kids to public school here and the fees is $0 ! We need to buy the school supplies ( like pens,notebooks,papers.binders and backpack etc) Other than that, it is optional to pay for the fund raisers and donation.

For Middle schools (6th-8th) they charge fees for laptop, science lab, gym uniform ...that is all ...it all amounts to less than $100. No idea about high school since my first son is still in 7th grade.

Public schools have good standards ( as far as I've seen in the west coast and east coast) . We've usually moved into neigborhoods that have very good school districts.

As far as I know, private schools charge an average amount of $1000 per month for each child.

Mostly, I've seen Indian families sending kids to public school from kinder garten till 12th grade.The kids are enrolled in KG from 5 years. Before they need to be admitted to preschools.

Of course, we need to pay for preschools/playschools/daycare (again the fees differ for community run preschools and private ones)

Cheers
Krithika

hi Krithika....

thanks for telling about US. I got to know these figures from one of our indian friend whose daughter is studying, i was shocked to know this.....its really something huge amount. I think one reason may be china don't have many international schools, if they have then they have very limited number of students. International schools appoint teachers from native english speaking countries. This may be one of the reasons for such a high fee. US is already an english speaking country so they hardly need to call teachers from other countries. International schools in china are totally depending on america or europe continent to get teachers for their schools.

Wow! i'm learning more about China in this thread than anywhere else. thanks to all who have provided very interesting facts about China.
lalitha

hi Jithiks

refer to ur question abt Chinese national dress, there is no Chinese national dress in China, bcoz there r many different ethnic groups in China, such as Korea, Mongol, Tibeten, Manchu and so on, and each of them has own traditional dress. What Padma metioned b4, the dress so called "qi pao" is exactly the same as what Vidya metioned "Cheong sam", "qi pao" is 4 women n "Cheong sam" is 4 men:). Both of them r not Chinese national dress, they r Machu traditional dress( one of the Chinese minorities in China). The main ethnic group in China is Han Chinese, and they make up 90% of the total population, they have got their own traditional dress called "Han fu (u can check it out online)", some of them wear it during Chinese traditional festvals, but majority of the ppl wear western style clothing, only few ppl keep their traditions nowadays. Some ppl did suggest government using "Han fu" to be their national dress and use it as dress in Beijing Olympic last year, but it was rejected bcoz "Han fu can not represent all ethnic groups in China." Moreover, I wana correct one thing, is that ppl in mainland do share the same culture with ppl in HK, but HK ppl has more western elements mixed in the culture due to the colony time with Britain, but deep inside of their culture they have got same Han Chinese culture. I know many Chinese so I think I can answer some of ur deep questions. There r many different cultures in China, each ethnic groups has got their own unique culture, some of them have got own language, writting, dress and so on. If you wana travel to China, I think Tibet and Yun nan provice would b the best place 4 u, coz it has got many rich cultures and nice views. In majority, what u have seen, the Chinese culture and veiws is only from Han Chinese culture, such as Great Wall, Forbidden city and others, but in the places I mentioned above u can see other cultures, which is nice!!

enjoy urself!

For school issues, What I know is local ppl do not pay 4 their tution fees until grade 9, but they have to pay 4 their school uniform and books. Schools r massive and nice in urban area with better facilities. There r only a few international shcools in some majoy cities, but it is extremely expensive. Ppl told me that the tuition fees of universities and colleges is a bit expensive 4 Chinese local students as well, some ppl from rural area can not afford it, but they v got student loans and scorlership, but scorlership can only help some of them.

hi,
This is XuShuang in Beijing, I'm Chinese. I 'm very much interested in India, today I search some information in google, and found this net site by chance. I think the comments about China is very objective. If you have other questions about China, I like to answer.

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Hello Mr. Balakrishnan:

We are visiting China this fall for about 25 days and traveling throughout China. We will be in Chongqing only one day, this October 9th. We will be staying at JW Marriott and wondering any possibility to meet? I am from Gujarat and my husband is from Punjab. We have been living in the U.S. for nearly 40 years. Here, Ford is doing ok but Chrysler and GM are in terrible shape.