Attempts to internationalize Chengdu’s school system involved little more than sending Chinese teachers abroad for a semester, or inviting foreign teachers to lecture in Chengdu. The key, says Richard ...

The city is much more risk-taking, much quicker to embrace an idea,' says Leman International School principal Richard Mast, who spoke at the symposium last November.

The Harrow International School Chengdu will be located at Zhonghe Street in the city's hi-tech zone, according to reports released when the agreement was signed on July 25.

Wan introduced that Chengdu has 133 secondary colleges, including 10 model colleges of state level and 19 key secondary colleges of state level, with more than 280,000 students.