关键词: “一带一路”沿线国家;, 国际文化交流, 双边教育协定, 双边外交关系, 来华留学生规模, 教育服务贸易

Abstract: In order to investigate whether the signing of bilateral education agreements has a policy guiding role for foreign students in China, this paper uses the data of 104 countries from 2003 to 2018 and uses LSDV method to carry out two-way fixed effect regression. The results show that the signing of bilateral education agreements significantly promotes the expansion of the scale of foreign students in China, and the impact on academic students is greater than that on non academic students. By distinguishing the countries of origin, it is found that the signing of bilateral education agreements has a more obvious role in promoting the scale of students from countries along the "belt and road" than non countries along the "belt and road", and a more obvious role in promoting the scale of students from developed countries than developing countries. Further considering the regulatory effect of bilateral diplomatic relations, it is found that there is a certain degree of substitution effect in bilateral diplomatic relations and bilateral education agreements. In the future, China can enhance the international competitiveness of China's education service trade by concluding high-standard bilateral education agreements, promoting the "belt and road" regional development strategy and developing bilateral relations.

Key words: Countries along "the Belt and Road", International Cultural Exchange, Bilateral Education Agreement, Bilateral Diplomatic Relations, Scale of Overseas-students in China, Educational Services Trade