The fellowships, tenable at a selected number of Chinese universities, are of one year duration.
U.S. universities will graduate 150, 000 engineering students this year, while Chinese universities will graduate more than 500, 000.
Beijing has also been sponsoring programs at Chinese universities to encourage young Africans to come to the country to study.
My sense also is that much of the work done at Chinese universities is application oriented and aimed at commercial development.
And while many Western schools boast of their links with Chinese universities, "they happen at such different levels, " Mr. Symonds notes.
Chinese universities are, however, establishing partnerships with leading U.S. and European universities and will increasingly use the Internet to achieve parity in education worldwide.
The deal has been on offer to those who wanted it since 1994, when the new system was first tried out at 40 Chinese universities.
Many are going on to teach in Chinese universities, slowing the brain drain that has long had China sending its smartest students abroad, never to return.
Many fear that it could make it even harder for university graduates to find jobs (last year 6.3m students graduated from Chinese universities, up from 1m in 1999, so competition is fierce).
Foreign firms should establish long-term interaction with leading Chinese faculty at Chinese universities, from top-rated Beijing University to Tsinghua to Fudan (in Shanghai) to other colleges in Tianjin, Dalian, Nanjing, Wuhan, Xiamen and Guangdong.
To compensate for this, he described a plan for 10, 000 Chinese students to train at U.S. universities to learn the basics of innovative thinking (and open Chinese universities to a like number of Americans).
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Saudi Arabia now sends students on scholarships to Chinese universities, and some rich Saudis, more used to shopping for Gucci in New York or London, are heading to once-obscure Chinese cities to buy furniture.
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Chinese colleges and universities graduate seven million bachelor degree-holders each year.
Every year, 1.2m engineers and scientists graduate from Chinese and Indian universities, as many as in America, the European Union and Japan combined and three times the number ten years ago (see chart 7).
His job is to convince foreign-educated Chinese to return to China to teach at universities or work at Chinese companies.
In 2005, that brand started targeting Chinese college students at elite universities.
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The Chinese realize the potential of American universities when engaged properly.
At the same time, CORE aims to share advanced Chinese courseware and other quality resources with universities around the world.
AstraZeneca ( AZN - news - people ) tapped into the booming Chinese pharmaceutical market by making large-scale, multiyear offshoring investments in everything from manufacturing to sales, partnering with local universities, government organizations and Chinese companies.
Chinese students flock to an education fair where American universities advertise their courses.
To Westerners who see China's math students regularly ranking near the top in international comparisons and Chinese mathematicians populating the math faculties at the finest overseas universities, Yau's crusade seems like overkill.
And the Chinese are hard at work trying to build world-class universities.
For several years, South Koreans were the largest foreign student group at U.S. universities, though they are now third behind the Chinese and Indians, according to the OECD.
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As for other sporting venues, the Olympic Green Tennis Centre is now used by the Chinese Tennis Association, and several other sports centres are used by universities.
They see China's students scoring higher in international comparisons and Chinese professors populating the math faculties at the best U.S. universities.
Liu talks about those challenges that working in China presents, and reflects on what his facility has meant for Chinese-educated researchers like him, and for the country's universities.
Three or four different universities have done an excellent job of attracting a really substantial number of Chinese students.
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Thus Shanghai boasts brand-new universities and research centres (bearing the logos of American as well as Chinese companies) while Trenton, New Jersey, suffers from shuttered factories and gang-infested streets.
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In the 1980s a trickle of smart students began to emerge once again from universities, and the trickle has since become a flood, providing an immense pool of talented Chinese, says Daniel Vasella, Novartis's chief executive.
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