Education Report - Getting More Americans to Study in China

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VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report. Last , 200,000 Chinese students studied in the United States. That a 23 percent increase over the previous year. The of International Education in New York reports that 26,000 .. students were in China in 2011. They included 15,000 studying for academic credit and 11,000 taking part in educational activities. A program called the 100,000 Strong Initiative trying to increase the number of Americans studying in . The State Department launched the program in 2010. The is to send 100,000 students to China during a period. Last year, the nonprofit 100,000 Strong Foundation was . Project Pengyou is one of the groups the foundation . It connects American students who have lived or studied China. Project Pengyou is based in Beijing and led Holly Chang. She says personal ties formed while studying can have an effect on relations between the United and China. She says there is still a huge of misunderstanding between the two countriesThe Chinese government has 20,000 scholarships to Americans under what is known as US-China Consultation on People-to-People Exchange. The 100,000 Strong Foundation no official relationship with the Chinese government. But the says it works closely with Chinese government officials to more Americans to seek these Chinese scholarships. The goal to give more Americans a chance to get a of Chinese cultureFor VOA Learning English, I'm Laurel Bowman. ( from a radio program broadcast 28Feb2013)

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