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Interesting facts about Australia-China

February 4th, 2010 4 comments

DID YOU KNOW?

  • China is Australia’s largest two-way trading partner.
  • In 2008 there were 66,000 Chinese nationals studying in Australia, the largest contingent of Australia’s international student population.
  • Only 2.5% of Australian year 12 students study Chinese, and 94% of them are first language speakers

Source: Asia Education Foundation (2009) “An Australian curriculum for the 21st century”, winter 2009.