SOME 24 Chinese universities which want to get more Singaporeans interested in studying in China are taking part in an education fair here.
Top names like Peking University (Beida), Tsinghua University and Fudan University are among the schools represented at the event, which opened at the University Hall of the National University of Singapore (NUS) on Friday.
The fair continues today at the college hall of Hwa Chong Institution in Bukit Timah Road between 10am and 4pm.
The China Education Exhibition, the first of its kind here, is organised by the Chinese Embassy, NUS and Hwa Chong Institution.
The participants were brought here by the China Scholarship Council (CSC), a government-sponsored, non-profit organisation set up by China in 1996 to help Chinese students further their education overseas, and to assist foreigners wanting to study in China.
Speaking at the opening of the fair, CSC's deputy secretary-general Li Jianmin said China hopes to attract more young Singaporean students to further strengthen the economic, social and academic ties between the two countries. More than 3,600 Singaporeans were studying in China last year.
-- ST
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