SOME 24 Chinese universities which want to get more Singaporeans
interested in studying in China are taking part in an education
fair here.
Top names like Peking University (Beida), Tsinghua University
and Fudan University are among the schools represented at the
event, which opened at the University Hall of the National
University of Singapore (NUS) on Friday.
The fair continues today at the college hall of Hwa Chong
Institution in Bukit Timah Road between 10am and 4pm.
The China Education Exhibition, the first of its kind here, is
organised by the Chinese Embassy, NUS and Hwa Chong
Institution.
The participants were brought here by the China Scholarship
Council (CSC), a government-sponsored, non-profit organisation set
up by China in 1996 to help Chinese students further their
education overseas, and to assist foreigners wanting to study in
China.
Speaking at the opening of the fair, CSC's deputy
secretary-general Li Jianmin said China hopes to attract more young
Singaporean students to further strengthen the economic, social and
academic ties between the two countries. More than 3,600
Singaporeans were studying in China last year.
-- ST