Difficulties for overseas Chinese students to return home.
Additional potential angles
The national policy on the return of Chinese students and the pressure students face in many aspects.
How would you explain the story in one sentence?
Take stock of the latest policies for overseas students and analyze their difficulties in the current situation and how to solve them.
What are the unanswered questions you hope to explore?
Are the Chinese government’s strict laws on overseas students’ return aimed at preventing them from returning home?
Why is it that a proportion of Chinese people do not welcome overseas students back home?
What is the best medium for your story?
I would say mostly print media because it’s not a live game. It’s a lot of serious policy.
Print: What are the dense details that make this much more in-depth than your weekly story?
Showing malicious attacks on Chinese websites against returned students, then find out why.
To explore a series of procedures to enable Chinese students to return home smoothly.
To explore whether it would be appropriate to restrict the return of foreign compatriots in order not to cause any potential cases at home.
Interactive/Social Media: How will you get the audience involved to interact with the story?
Publish my story and ask Chinese students who are about to return and consider returning to China to comment on my story, leave a message, express their opinions, or pour out their troubles.
In each story, who are the characters, and are they accessible?
Chinese students who have already returned to China, they are accessible.
Chinese students who plan to return to China, they are accessible.
Chinese students who do not plan to return to China but are still concerned about this issue, they are accessible.
Where do you need to go tell the story?
It could be anywhere. There is no regional limit to the story.
What is the potential impact of the reporting?
Help Chinese students see the difficulties they face and make them start preparing for their return home early.
Show a message to those who abuse and insult the returnees on the Internet: It is my freedom to come and go. You have no right to interfere with my choice.
Has anyone else done this reporting regionally or nationally? How will yours differ from that?
Yes, the issue has been a hot topic in China since the outbreak, and it has drawn increasing attention as the policy has become stricter and more students have protested. Most of the reporters interviewed Chinese students who had already returned to China. The difference between them and me is that I can interview the students who have already returned to China. I can also interview students who are preparing to return to China. Then compare the difficulties each face and tell the reader how the policies introduced in such a short period of time have limited Chinese students’ desire to return home.
