US students come to China as part of exchange project

Andrew Campbell, a graduate student from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in the United States, has come to the Chinese capital to investigate how a city benefits from providing a bicycle rental service to residents and visitors.

As one of 40 US graduate students in the 2012 Sino-US Young Professionals in Science and Engineering Exchange Program, Campbell will spend two months conducting his study at Tsinghua University in Beijing.

"Nowadays, people have multiple choices for transport, and China has a massive share of the world's bike riders," the 30-year-old said, adding that China provides a great data foundation for his study.