I'm an American teacher in China. I can't see myself going back to the US to teach.

• I'm an American living in Shanghai. 
• I've been a teacher in China for the last seven years and have no plans of returning to the US. 
• English has been a required subject in school since 2001. 

For a country of 1.4 billion people, there is no way to accurately generalize schooling in China — just as a public school educator in the rural Midwest may have a vastly different experience than that of a teacher in an expensive private school in Chicago, so is the case here.