More students studying in Japan with govt aid

The number of Chinese students funded by the government to study in Japan has increased in recent years, an overseas study expert said.

Zhang Ning, deputy secretary-general of the China Scholarship Council, said the number increased to 738 in 2015 from 569 in 2013.

Zhang was speaking at the 2016 China-Japan University Forum, which was hosted in Beijing by the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Japan Science and Technology Agency.