Sino-foreign cooperative education has entered a new phase of higher-quality development, shifting from traditional ‘knowledge transfer’ to a model centered on collaborative innovation and the incubation of research outcomes, with high-level programs at the master's and doctoral levels seeing rapid growth.

Beijing, China (Xinhua/Indonesia Window) – By the end of 2025, China hosted 373 cooperative educational institutions and programs offering postgraduate degrees or higher, 69 of which offer doctoral programs, a think tank report said Saturday (April 25).

Sino-foreign cooperative education has entered a new phase of higher-quality development, according to the report titled ‘Study in China: Contributing to the Building of a Community with a Shared Future for Humanity.’

The focus has shifted from traditional ‘knowledge transfer’ to a model centered on collaborative innovation and the incubation of research outcomes, with high-level programs at the master's and doctoral levels seeing rapid growth, the report said.

The report was released by Xinhua Institute, the think tank arm of China's Xinhua News Agency.

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