I'm Li Yang Liu and this is destination education on the BBC World Service.

I'm with Jean Jean and her parents Ying and

Ein and Simmin at their apartment in a high-rise block in downtown

Shanghai.

I like the all things in UK.

Jeanette's only 13 years old, but in a few weeks she will be traveling thousands of miles

from home to go to a private boarding school in England.

Jeanette has never been to the school.

I like Britain people and their culture.

Is there anything you want to take to the UK with you?

I want to take my all things.

All your things, everything.

With the recent economic boom in China,

more parents are opting to send their children overseas to be privately educated.

An education for Chinese students in Britain is worth around 5 billion pounds a year,

but it's not only university students going abroad

from China to study.

Some, like Jeanette, are also quite young.

So we are now in Jeanette's bedroom.

It's a small bedroom but very sweet.

White furniture, you can see a few stuffed animals here and there, a lot of books. There's a Harry Potter. So Jeanette, you are

leaving for the UK very soon for the boarding school. How do you feel about going to a different country to study?

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