2010 China-US S&T personnel exchanges program, co-sponsored by the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese National Natural Science Foundation, and US National Science Foundation, and implemented by China Science and Technology Exchange Center, was launched on June 14, 2010 in Beijing. 40 American post-graduate students, jointly selected by Chinese and American sides based on their performance, started the reorientation in the first week, during which they will study the Chinese language and culture, familiarizing themselves with China's S&T, political, and economic systems, foreign policies, history, and social customs, and visiting Tsinghua University and high tech parks. After the reorientation, American students will work on their 7-week collaborative researches at Tsinghua University, Peking University, research institutes, and labs.

China-US S&T personnel exchanges program, lasting for 8 weeks, was created in 2004 to allow the accomplished American post-graduate students to work with Chinese researchers on selected topics at Chinese universities, research institutes, and labs. The program makes a new channel to facilitate the exchanges and cooperation between young scientists in the two countries. 199 American students have conducted fruitful collaborative researches with Chinese researchers in the past 6 years.