British universities are growing even more dependent on international students from China, according to a report.
一份报告指出，英国高校越来越依赖来自中国的留学生。

The Times Higher Education Supplement highlighted the latest UK government immigration statistics and found that the number of study visas granted to students from the Chinese mainland rose 10% to 77,290 in the year to March 2017.
《泰晤士报高等教育增刊》在着重研究英国政府最新的移民统计数据后发现，在截至2017年3月的一年中，发放给中国内地学生的留学签证的数量增加了10%，达77290个。

That represented a 37% of all study visas granted to students from outside the European Union over the period.
这一数字占据这一时期内英国给欧盟以外地区学生发放的全部留学签证的37%。

This is a major change compared with about 10 years ago when India was the dominant source of non-EU students.
这与约10年前相比发生了重大变化，那时印度是在英国就读的非欧盟学生的主要来源国。

The US came in second in the year to March 2017 on study visas granted with almost 14,300, while India was third with just above 11,600.
在截至2017年3月的一年里，美国以近1.43万人获得留学签证位居第二，而印度则以略多于1.16万人获留学签证位居第三。

UK Home Office visa data which showed that over the past few years around 49% of visa applicants come from East Asia.
英国内政部的签证数据显示，在过去几年里，约49%的签证申请者来自东亚。