Jiangsu bid for more ASEAN students
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A FUND worth 3 million yuan (US$442,500) will provide scholarships for students from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations interested in studying in the east China’s Jiangsu Province, an education bureau official said yesterday.
The Jasmine ASEAN scholarship is part of a wider initiative to boost educational cooperation between Jiangsu and ASEAN, and is open to students wishing to study at secondary and vocational schools in the province.
Jiangsu is famous for the Chinese folk song “Jasmine Flower,” which is where the scholarship got its name.
Sixty students from ASEAN countries have already been accepted onto the program and they began their first semester in September, Shen Jian, director of Jiangsu’s education bureau told reporters at the Jiangsu-ASEAN education dialogue.
The dialogue, organized by the China-ASEAN Center and education bureaus from both sides, aims to boost bilateral educational cooperation under China’s “Belt and Road” initiative.
Educational exchanges have increased rapidly between the two sides in recent years.
China welcomed 72,000 ASEAN students in 2015, while more than 120,000 Chinese students studied in ASEAN countries the same year.
In Jiangsu, there were around 4,000 students from ASEAN in 2015, an 8.6-percent increase from the year before.
As 2016 is the 25th anniversary of the dialogue relationship between China and ASEAN, and also the year of ASEAN-China educational exchanges, officials hope to take the opportunity to level up the figures.
“As China and ASEAN steps into a new stage of collaboration, we hope to take this opportunity to build upon our educational cooperation, and increase exchanges between Jiangsu and ASEAN,” Shen said.
The province has also partnered with education bureaus in Myanmar and Indonesia to further promote communication and personnel exchanges.
Southwest China’s Guizhou Province and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in the south have similar scholarships for ASEAN students.
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