China had made great strides in many areas of its higher education in the past 10 years, reported education expert Xu Zhihong, former president of Peking University. Said Xu, ”China has made great progress in promoting popularization of higher education, building world-class universities, achieving a balanced development of higher education and improving its quality since 1998, when the Chinese government initiated the 21st Century Education Reviving Action Plan … Twenty years ago, it was hard to imagine Chinese scholars publishing papers at international journals, such as Science and Nature, independently. However, today, many scholars from first class Chinese universities are able to publish a series of papers at international journals every year.”Source: China Daily