Recently, the China Scholarship Council (CSC) successively announced the approval results for the 2026 “Innovative Talents International Cooperation Cultivation Program” and the “Country and Region Studies Talent Support Plan.” Led by the Office of International Cooperation, three projects proposed respectively by the Department of Geology, the College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, and the School of Cultural Heritage were successfully approved. These are: the “International Cooperation Cultivation Program for Innovative Talents in Continental Tectonics and Early Life Evolution,” the “International Cooperation Cultivation Program for Innovative Talents in River Hydrology-Environment-Ecology Interaction Processes for the Ecological Protection Strategy of the Yellow River Basin,” and the “Joint Talent Cultivation Program for Silk Road Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Protection.” The number of approved projects marks a record high for our university.
State-sponsored study abroad serves as the “bellwether” of study abroad work, playing a demonstrative and leading role in cultivating high-level international talents and promoting high-standard opening-up in education. During the “14th Five-Year Plan” period, NWU has actively responded to the CSC’s “program-based” reform, carrying out “organized” state-sponsored study abroad work. More than 60 teachers and students, relying on the eight "program-based" projects successively approved for our university, have received state-sponsored study abroad scholarship support, with total funding amounting to nearly 10 million RMB. (Office of International Cooperation)