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The number of Chinese mainland students studying in colleges and universities in the United States exceeded 300,000 for the first time in the current academic year.
A report from the United States shows that 304,000 Chinese mainland students are in the US, an 11 percent increase over the previous academic year. The "Open Doors Report on International Educational Exchange" is published annually by the Institute of International Education in the United States.
The figure means that Chinese mainland students now account for 31 percent of the total of 975,000 international students in the colleges and universities of the United States in the 2014 to 2015 academic year.
The other top sources are India, South Korea, Saudi Arabia and Canada.
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A Chinese farmer has been awarded a Russian national medal for his discovery of the remains of four Russian WWII soldiers who fell while helping to defend China against Japanese invaders in 1945.
The Russian Academy of Military Sciences presented the medal to Liu Guang-lin, a local farmer from northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. The event is part of the activities to commemorate the 70th anniversary of victory in the Soviet Union's Great Patriotic War against Nazi Germany.
Liu discovered four bodies on a mountainside in 2012 and also found metal plates, helmets and badges with Russian cyrillics engraved on them. He reported his discovery to the local government.
Historians from Russia later confirmed that the soldiers belonged to an infantry division of the Soviet far-east army.
The former Soviet Union sent troops to northeast China in 1945. A total of 413 Soviet soldiers died during a battle on the mountain.
Liu transferred the remains to a safe place and kept them for the following three years, before a Sino-Russian project to locate the remains of Russian soldiers started in May.
Later, three more bodies were found during a one-month search in dozens of possible burial sites covering a total of 32 square kilometers.
The remains of all seven soldiers have been buried in a martyrs' park in Mudanjiang City in the province.
