Academy sustains foreign exchange programs

The Chinese Academy of Sciences, China's highest academic and consulting institute for science and technology, has funded large numbers of research staff exchanges and cooperative research programs between China and other G20 members over the past five years.

Statistics from the academy's Bureau of International Cooperation showed that from 2011 to 2015, the academy spent 130 million yuan ($20 million) on funding the President's International Fellowship Initiative to support distinguished scientists, visiting scholars, postdoctoral researchers and PhD students from overseas to visit, study or conduct research at higher education or research institutions in China.

Almost three-quarters of the funding went to those from members in the G20, according to the bureau.