Chinanews, Xiamen, March 24 - According to a report by Xiamen Daily, the China Scholarship Council is planning to raise the amount of the Chinese Government Scholarship, to attract more good foreign students to study in China. The information was released on March 21, at a meeting in Xiamen University.

 

Chinese Government Scholarship is founded by the Ministry of Education to encourage students exchange between China and other countries and regions in the world, based on the contracts and agreements signed with the governments of other countries or regions, universities or colleges of those countries and regions, and related international organizations.

 

China's current plan is to attract some 500 thousand foreign students by 2020, making it one of the major forces to push students exchange in the world.

 

The Ministry of Education is also planning to secure control of the educational quality of the medical universities that receive foreign students (not including universities of traditional Chinese medicine), which will be the first step for China to become a top educational destination. Besides. preparatory courses for foreign scholarship winners will also be inaugurated soon.

 

Currently, 118 Chinese universities are authorized to receive the winners of Chinese Government Scholarship. There were 8,488 international students on such scholarship studying in China in 2006.