China to offer 100 exchange spots to Italian universities

China will offer over 100 exchange opportunities to Italian universities, with the aim of further deepening higher education exchanges between the two countries, Huai Jinpeng, the Chinese minister of education, said on Saturday 9 November, reports Xinhua.

Huai made the announcement at the opening ceremony of the China-Italy University Rectors Dialogue held in Beijing, stating that China will offer at least five fully funded student exchange opportunities to each of the 22 Italian universities participating in the event.

At the opening ceremony, the Italy leg of a high-level initiative to double the scale of European youth exchanges in China was launched, and several Chinese and Italian universities also signed agreements to jointly build research centres and campuses.
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