Band 5+: The chart below shows the number of students from four different countries applying to European universities. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar chart indicates the number of students from China, Japan, the Usa and Russia who applied to the universities of one European country over a 5-year period ,beginning from 2004

Overall,it is obvious that there were more Chinese and American students applying to the European universities,while the number of students in Japan and Russia were lower. Three countries including Japan, usa and russia saw an upward trend ,while china experienced the opposite trend.

Looking at the chart more closely ,one can see that in 2004,china had the highest number of students applying to universities in Europe ,almost halved the number of America.However,there was a downward trend in China and in 2008,it placed the second after the usa.On contrast , the Usa grew steadily from 2005 and reached the same level as China in 2006.in 2008,it peaked at the number of 28000 applicants ,the same figures as China in the year 2004.

Followed by China and America,Japan increased gradually , placing the third at the end of the given period.Russian had the lowest number of applicants to European countries ,with the number of under 5000 applicants throughout the period