Number of Russian, Chinese students taking part in exchange programs can reach 100,000 - State Duma speaker

SHENZHEN /China/, May 6. /TASS/. The opening of the joint university of Moscow State University and Beijing University of Technology in Shenzhen will make it possible to increase the number of students in the two countries involved in exchange programs to 100,000 per year, speaker of the Russian State Duma (lower house of parliament) Sergei Naryshkin has said at a meeting with students in Shenzhen. "I am sure that the construction and opening of the joint university will make it possible for us to achieve common goals. The goal is to bring the mutual exchange of students between our countries to 100,000 people," Naryshkin said. He earlier noted that currently 25,000 Chinese students are educated in Russia, and 17,000 Russians study in China. According to him, students of the joint university will get access to the best educational programs - on economy, ecology, mathematics, computer technology, chemistry, physics, finance and audit. In the future, it is planned to add new areas of learning, including logistics and space exploration, Naryshkin said. "A modern medical faculty with the university clinic and state-of-the-art medical center scientific medical center will be built," he said, adding that training will be conducted in three languages - Chinese, Russian and English. Earlier in the day, Naryshkin took part in the ceremony of laying the cornerstone on the site where the main complex of the joint university of Moscow State University and Beijing University of Technology will be built in Shenzhen. Read more