The “one hundred thousand plan” was set up by Obama to promote program that American students come to study in China for future Sino-American relationship.
The “one hundred thousand plan” was set up by Obama to promote program that American students come to study in China for future Sino-American relationship. On May, 2010, Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of State started the plan in Beijing. Half and a year past, how did is everything with the plan? the responsible person of the plan told the development of the plan, as sje said, among “Nations that American students mostly likely to study in”, China is the fifth, well, Shanghai and Beijing are the two cities that most American students like to study in China.
According to Youth Daily, American president Obama announced the plan the first time when he visited China in 2009, which is aimed at sending 100,000 American students to study in China in 4 years. The plan increases number of American students studying in China on large scale. While the rate that two nations send students to study in each other’s country remains obvious gap
According to the statistics by American State Council and International Education Research Institute, number that Chinese students studying in American increased 23% year-on-year from 2009 to 2010, a total number of 158,000. China became first country that most of its students are studying in America. While there are only 1.4 American students are studying in China, less than 2% of the number of American students in China. American government plans to make number of American students studying in China up to 100,000. Besides, the plan can also promote diversity of American students study in China. The “ one hundred thousand plan’ not only urges American students to study in China, also it focuses on attracting and helping countryside, small part of ethnicity, low income family students and community university and high and primary students get more chance to study in China.
In the meanwhile, in order to support “one hundred plan”, Chinese Government decided to provide 40,000 American students with government scholarship within 4 years. The scholarship will be divided into two part and will be carried out respectively by Confucius institute and China Ministry of Education.