Chinese academic institutions have surpassed their U.S. counterparts in signing partnership pacts with Japanese universities and other educational bodies.
The education ministry noted a record 13,484 agreements aimed at facilitating exchanges of students and scholars as of Oct. 1, 2006, up about 2,100 from 2004.
The number of Japanese institutions signing pacts with Chinese academic bodies surged 25 percent to 2,565, accounting for 19 percent of the total. There were 2,298 pacts with U.S. institutions and 1,467 with South Korean entities.
China surpassed the United States for the first time on record, which the ministry has been keeping since fiscal 1992.
The education ministry believes China's efforts to boost the number of its universities and promote their activities on the back of its rapid economic growth are driving the trend.
"As relations with China are becoming increasingly important in political, economic and all other areas, ties developed by the young generation will become valuable assets for both countries in the future," an official with Keio University in Tokyo said.
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