Educational exchanges establish 'rich harmony'

The more than 170,000 students and scholars from China studying in the United Kingdom make up the largest Chinese student community in Europe. Meanwhile, the number of British students traveling to China has risen to nearly 10,000.

Liu Xiaoming, China's ambassador to the UK, equates China-UK educational exchanges and cooperation to a symphony, saying there are "flourishing exchanges happening on all fronts", but that the "main theme" is loud and clear.

For example, when the Oxford Institute of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences was established at the University of Oxford last year it became the first research unit set up by a foreign university at Oxford in the university's 800-year history.