Chinanews, Shanghai, Oct 10 – The Ministry of Education and five other central governmental departments recently issued a notification urging for sending more students to study abroad in order to quench the country's thirst for knowledge in some key areas, the Shanghai Evening Post reported.

 

For students whose majors are in connection with public interests, students who study in the basic research areas or technologically pioneering areas, and students who study newly emerging industries, the state should be able to provide funds to support them to study in foreign colleges or companies ahead of students in other majors, the notification says.

 

Based on the notification, students who major in agriculture, forestry, irrigation, meteorology, geology, mining, oil and gas, nuclear industry, software, micro-electronics, animation and modern service industry should have the priority, ahead of students in other majors, to receive funds to study abroad. These majors should be either closely related with public interests or in the basic research or technologically pioneering fields, or in the newly emerging industries. At present, China needs a great number of talents who have adequate expertise in these fields.