China has rarely left the education press’s spotlight in recent years. In 2016, news broke of the first state-funded academy trust in England to open a fee-paying branch there. Joint-venture schools are emerging in response to local laws preventing the admission of local students, and the International Baccalaureate has announced Beijing as the location of its 1,000th approved programme in the Asia Pacific region. Rebecca Marriage looks at how these changes affect families moving to the region, and what they mean when it comes to making school choices.