During the fifth High-Level Consultation on People-to-People Exchanges (CPE) that was held in Beijing on 9 July, China and the United States reached some agreements aiming at increasing cooperation on education, science, culture and sports. The programmes include sending 10,000 public-funded students to pursue doctorate degrees in the US, a scholarship programme that sponsors 10,000 students under the Sino-US high-level consultation mechanism for cultural exchanges and the Chinese Bridge programme, which will allow 10,000 students from the US to study in China.