Britons in China

This article is about Chinese people of British descent. For British people of Chinese descent, see British Chinese.

As of 2006, an estimated 36,000 British people live in China, including those living in Hong Kong, a special administrative region of China.^[1] A different estimate puts the number of Britons in China (including Hong Kong) at 3,752,031,^[2][3] the majority of which are those in Hong Kong who have continued to possess British nationality, particularly the British nationals (overseas) status, which numbered 3.4 million as of 2007.^[4]

As of the 2011 Hong Kong Census, there were 33,733 Britons in Hong Kong.^[5]

Education

British international schools in Mainland China include:

Beijing:

• British School of Beijing, Sanlitun
• British School of Beijing, Shunyi
• Dulwich College Beijing
• Harrow International School Beijing
• Pennon Foreign Language School, Beijing
• International School of Beijing (Formed by a merger of the British Embassy School)
• Beijing Rego British School (closed)

Guangdong:

• British School of Guangzhou
• Bromsgrove School Mission Hills (Shenzhen)
• Dulwich International High School Zhuhai

Jiangsu:

• Wycombe Abbey International School of Changzhou (former Oxford International College of Changzhou)
• British School of Nanjing
• Dulwich College Suzhou
• Dulwich International High School Suzhou

Shandong:

• Malvern College Qingdao

Shanghai:

• Nord Anglia International School Shanghai Pudong
• The British International School Shanghai, Puxi Campus
• Dulwich College Shanghai
• Harrow International School Shanghai
• Wellington College International Shanghai
• Shanghai Rego International School (Closed)

Sichuan:

• Malvern College Chengdu
• Oxford International College of Chengdu

Tianjin:

• Wellington College International Tianjin

British schools in Hong Kong include:

• Harrow International School Hong Kong
• Kellett School
• Malvern College Hong Kong
• South Island School

Notable personalities

• Sir Edmund Backhouse, 2nd Baronet
• Lee and Oli Barrett - social media personalities^[6]
• John Otway Percy Bland

See also

• China portal
• United Kingdom portal

• British diaspora
• British Chinese
• China-United Kingdom relations