The China Scholarship Council (, CSC) is the
Chinese
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Ministry of Education
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's
non-profit organization
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that provides support for international academic exchange with China and is the primary vehicle through which the Chinese government awards scholarships.
CSC provides both funding for Chinese citizens and residents to study abroad, and for foreign students and scholars to study in China.
The agency predominantly provides scholarships to individuals, including in batches allocated to specific foreign universities.
The CSC funds a number of Chinese students studying abroad every year, and the same number of international students in China.
According to a 2020 report by the
United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission
The United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission (informally, the US-China Commission, USCC) is an independent agency of the United States government. It was established on October 30, 2000, through the Floyd D. Spence National Defe ...
, certain CSC scholarships require that recipients "support the leadership of the
Communist Party
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and the path of
socialism with Chinese characteristics
Socialism with Chinese characteristics ( zh, s=中国特色社会主义, hp=Zhōngguó tèsè shèhuìzhǔyì) is a set of political theories and policies of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that are seen by their proponents as representing M ...
; love the motherland; have a sense of responsibility to serve the country, society, and the people; and to have a correct world view, outlook on life, and values system." and CSC also manages the National Construction High-Level University Postgraduate Program scholarship, which funds a number of graduate students each year. Moreover, the CSC's elite-track funding mechanism for foreign exchange is the
International Cooperative Program for Innovative Talents The International Cooperative Program for Innovative Talents (ICPIT) mechanism is the top-level international educational exchange program for higher education of the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China. The ICPIT program is admi ...
(ICPIT) program, which funds hundreds of special training programs arising from collaborations between top Chinese and international institutions.
Among its most well-known scholarship programs, the CSC manages the
, which funds about 650 students each year(500 before 2021),
this scholarships are designed to encourage Chinese students to return home after completing their studies.
In August 2020, the
University of North Texas
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terminated its relationship with the China Scholarship Council.
See also
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Thousand Talents Plan
The Thousand Talents Plan or Thousand Talents Program (TTP) (), or Overseas High-Level Talent Recruitment Programs () is a program by the central government of China to recruit experts in science and technology from abroad, principally but not ex ...
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