There are many reasons why the remaining 26 people did not return to China in time. Some of them have not finished their studies, so they can't finish their studies and haven't returned to China for the time being. Some of them have gone to war, believed in foreign religions and stayed overseas. Many people died overseas because of acclimatization. After all, they were only twelve years old at that time. These overseas students, such as Zhan Tianyou and Tang, have made great contributions to national construction after returning to China, and finally become experts and celebrities in related fields.

At that time, because these children were only twelve years old and because of the long journey, everyone's physical quality was different. Therefore, many children eventually fell ill and died in a foreign country because they did not adapt to the living environment overseas. One of the most famous figures, Chia Chew Paun, a talented teenager, was admitted to Rizal Institute of Technology at the age of fifteen, but died only one year after entering the school, which made many people feel sorry.

There are still many people, everyone has heard that after arriving in the United States, they have come into contact with many western cultures and began to doubt their traditional Confucianism. So they began to cut off their braids, abandon their traditional beliefs, and began to pursue western foreign religions, which produced resistance to the feudal rule of the Qing Dynasty. When it was time to return to China, he refused to return to China, insisted on continuing his studies overseas, and finally stayed overseas. For these reasons, only 94 students returned to China when 188 1 was recalled.

After these children returned to China, they really played a very positive role and contributed a lot to the construction of the whole country. Many of them are already the backbone of the mining industry, the originator of the telegraph, and some are political leaders.