Chinese students pose for a graduation photo at Columbia University, the US, May 21. [Photo/Xinhua]

China supports the initiative of sending a total of 50,000 Chinese and American students to study in each other's countries in the next three years.

The US will expand the 100,000 Strong Initiative from universities to elementary and high schools to achieve the goal of having 100,000 US students studying Mandarin by 2020.

During visit to the US, Sept 22-25

Chinese Scholarship Council of the Ministry of Education and Imperial College London signed a cooperation agreement on Innovative Talents Training Project.

During visit to the UK, Oct 19–23

China and Russia agreed to hold a media exchange year program in 2016-2017, and extend the scale of youth exchanges of both countries.

During visits to Kazakhstan, Russia and Belarus, May 7–12