Ministry of Education: China has signed agreements on mutual recognition of academic degrees and degrees with 58 countries and regions

(China in the past ten years) Ministry of Education: China has signed agreements on mutual recognition of academic degrees and degrees with 58 countries and regions

　　China News Agency, Beijing, September 20 (Reporter Gao Kai) The Ministry of Education of China held a series of press conferences on the "Ten Years of Education" in Beijing on the 20th. Liu Jin, director of the Department of International Cooperation and Exchange of the Ministry of Education of China, introduced that China has cooperated with 58 Many countries and regions have signed agreements on mutual recognition of academic degrees. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, more than 80% of Chinese students studying abroad have chosen to return to China after completing their studies.

　　The Ministry of Education held a press conference on the same day to introduce the international cooperation and exchanges in education in the past ten years. Liu Jin said that the overall layout of China's opening up has been continuously optimized, and the "circle of friends" in education has become larger: education cooperation and exchanges have been generally carried out with 181 countries that have established diplomatic relations with 159 countries and regions have co-organized Confucius Institutes (Confucius Classrooms), and signed agreements on mutual recognition of academic degrees and degrees with 58 countries and regions; in-depth implementation of the "Belt and Road" education initiative to strengthen the interconnection in the field of education with countries and countries. 23 Luban workshops have been built, and pilot projects of overseas Chinese schools have been launched.

　　In addition, the "China-ASEAN Vocational Education Federation" was established, the China Shanghai Cooperation Organization School of Economics and Trade was established, and the "Future Africa-China-Africa Vocational Education Cooperation Plan" was launched to deepen China-Central and Eastern Europe educational exchanges and cooperation, and regional educational cooperation combining point and face. The mechanism has been continuously improved.

　　Liu Jin pointed out that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, more than 80% of Chinese students studying abroad have chosen to return to China after completing their studies.

At the same time, Sino-foreign cooperation in running schools is flourishing, and the approval, management, evaluation and withdrawal mechanisms are constantly being improved.

　　She introduced that in the past ten years, among the new Chinese-foreign cooperative education institutions and projects above the undergraduate level, science, engineering, agriculture and medicine accounted for 65%.

In recent years, Sino-foreign cooperation in running schools has played an active role in alleviating the obstacles to studying abroad caused by the epidemic, with a cumulative enrollment of nearly 10,000 people.

Studying in China has introduced a series of policies and measures in promoting system construction, implementing quality assurance, strict admission standards, standardizing training management, and strengthening the work of graduates studying in China.

In the 2020-2021 academic year, the registered international students come from 195 countries and regions, accounting for 76% of the degree students, an increase of 35 percentage points compared with 2012.

　　Liu Jin said that since the Ministry of Education launched the International Industry-University-Research Cooperation Conference in 2018, it has attracted more than 14,000 experts and scholars from more than 70 countries to participate in the conference, and carried out more than 2,300 "one-to-one" scientific research cooperation between departments and experts. Mentors have jointly trained more than 4,000 graduate students.

　　She introduced that in the past ten years, the Ministry of Education has held 37 meetings of high-level people-to-people and cultural exchange mechanisms between China and foreign countries, signed more than 300 cooperation agreements, and reached nearly 3,000 specific cooperation results.

Under the framework of the people-to-people and cultural exchange mechanism, educational brand projects such as the Sino-US Youth Maker Competition, the Sino-Russian University Alliance, the Sino-British Sino-French Hundred Schools Exchange, and the Central-South (Africa) Vocational Education Alliance have been formed.

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