Why are teachers not allowed to travel abroad?

Legal analysis: Teachers who can travel abroad, whether in-service or non-in-service, can travel abroad in China. There are no relevant policies and regulations prohibiting teachers from traveling abroad. School teachers are career-oriented and different from civil servants. Therefore, teachers, professors, principals and leaders of colleges and universities in China can arrange exchanges or travel abroad according to their work or personal needs.

Legal basis: Article 31 of the Compulsory Education Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) People's governments at all levels guarantee teachers' wages, welfare and social insurance benefits, and improve teachers' working and living conditions; Improve the guarantee mechanism of rural teachers' salary funds. The average salary of teachers should not be lower than that of local civil servants. Special education teachers enjoy special post subsidies. Teachers working in ethnic minority areas and remote and poor areas enjoy subsidies in hard and poor areas.