The Chinese Service Center for Scholarly Exchange (CSCSE), an institution directly under the Ministry of Education, has the status of independent legal person. It mainly provides services for international students to study in China, Chinese to study abroad, returning students from studying abroad, and other international and educational cooperation and exchanges. It has built good cooperative relations with corresponding organizations both in China and overseas. Major service items now available at the center for study in China are as follows:

    1.To cooperate with overseas organizations and domestic universities in providing self-financed international students with such intermediary services as consulting and enrollment;

    2.To cooperate with overseas organizations and domestic universities in organizing various types of short-term study programs in China and exchange activities;

    3.To organize Chinese universities to launch exhibitions abroad on Chinese higher education;

    4.To introduce the general situation of Chinese education, higher education, and education for international students, through the Internet. The column also tells about the guiding principles and policies of the Chinese government, China's educational exchanges with foreign counties, procedures and regulations concerning admission application, examination, visa, and entry and registration for study in China, the directory of the accepting universities and colleges for international students, admission brochures of some universities for international students, and introduction to the HSK, among others.

    5.To see to medical insurance and accident injury insurance on behalf of international students.