2024CAU Admission 0412C
2024CAU Admission 0412C
2024CAU Admission 0412C
1. Program Introduction
The target applicants of the Master Program on “Rural Development and Management
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Studies” are government officials (medium and high level), and senior faculty members
or researchers in universities or research institutes.
This program equips the students with the international perspectives and the advanced
approaches to development research and management, and knowledge on China’s
development models and experiences. This major aims to cultivate high level,
multi-disciplinary, and applied talents in the field of public management. This
program integrates the theories with practices, integrates teaching with the practices,
builds up a student-friendly environment and provides students with the opportunities
of practices, and encourages the independent and innovative thinking of the students.
This program, which lasts for 2 years, plans to recruit 30 international students
majoring in “Rural Development and Management Studies”. The program will start on
September 7 of 2024, and end on July 15 of 2026.
1.1.5 Scholarship
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support within the program timeline. The students who postponed their graduation
will not receive the continuing support.
China Agricultural University, which is located in Beijing, is the origin of the Modern
Agricultural Higher Education in China. It has three campuses, the east campus is
located in Qinghuadonglu 17#, the west campus is located in Yuanmingyuanxilu 2#,
Jianshe University Campus is located in Tianxiulu 10#. Its history can be traced back
to The Imperial College of Agricultural University established in 1905. For a long
time, the country attaches great importance to the construction and development of this
university. In 1995, the university was listed in the first batch of "national 211 program"
for building up the high standard universities in China. In 2004, the university was
listed in the "national 985 program" for building up high-level research universities in
China.
After a hundred years of history, China Agricultural University has developed into a
research university and has advanced areas in agriculture, life science, agricultural
engineering, and food science. The university has formed the characteristic and
complementary academic clusters in agriculture and life sciences, resources and
environment science, information and computer science, agricultural engineering and
automation science, economic management and social sciences.
China Agricultural University has 16 Colleges and capable and well structured teaching
staff. Currently there are 1645 full-time teachers, including 588 professors, 852
associate professors. The university has 5 members of academicians of Chinese
Academy of Science, 7 members of Chinese Academy of Engineering, 26 distinguished
professors of Changjiang Scholars Program, 42 winners of National Outstanding Youth
Science Foundation, 15 Principal Scientists of the national 973 Program.
China Agricultural University has 11395 full-time undergraduate students, 7661
full-time graduate students, including 4478 full-time graduate students, 3183 full-time
PhD students, 215 postdoctoral researchers in the station.
The executing agency of the program is the College of Humanities and Development
Studies (College of International Development and Global Agriculture) at China
Agricultural University. The college has multiple functions including education,
research, training, and consulting services.
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College of International Development and Global Agriculture (CIDGA), is a
comprehensive platform of China Agricultural University that brings together
multidisciplinary fields around international development and global agriculture based
on decades of the university’s explorations on both bring-in and going-out development
researches and talents fostering. The college has pioneered a unique approach that
integrates macro-level global development governance with micro-level rural
governance, and promotes policy consultation alongside academic research. This
distinctive feature has generated significant policy, social, and academic impacts both
domestically and internationally.
The college has established a rich academic exchange platform and developed diverse
approaches to education. It offers a variety of academic lectures covering multiple
themes and fields, such as the "New Development Knowledge", the "Global
Governance and Development Forum" lecture series, the China International
Development Research Network public forum, and the "Rural Forum for China" lecture
series. Particularly, the "New Development Knowledge" lecture series aims to invite
renowned scholars in development research, disseminators of development knowledge,
as well as cutting-edge policymakers and practitioners, to jointly identify new
opportunities arising from the transformation of the international development system.
It also strives to depict the narratives and actions of emerging countries in their
overseas development efforts, thereby enriching and expanding the existing knowledge
map of global development.
The college has always regarded serving the country's major development strategies as
its mission, actively responding to the "One Belt and One Road" Initiative, undertaking
multiple projects for national ministries and commissions as well as the Beijing
Municipality's international student programs. The college is committed to nurturing
talents for the world. Through years of continuous exploration and effort, it has
achieved commendable results in educational aid work, making significant
contributions to cultivating talents with an understanding of China, promoting the
construction of the "One Belt and One Road," and fostering a community with a shared
future for mankind.
(1) The climate of Beijing is a typical warm temperate and semi humid continental
monsoon climate. It is rainy in summer, cold and dry in winter and short in spring and
autumn. The annual average temperature in Beijing is 14 degrees Celsius: the winter is
3 degrees below zero, the spring is 12 degrees, the summer is 24 degrees, and the
autumn is 12 degrees. The average price index in Beijing is high in the cities of the
country. The dressing index of Beijing is 2 in winter, 3-5 in spring, 7 in summer and 3-5
in autumn.
(2) The university provides comfortable living environment and conditions for
students.
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The program has arranged three accommodation places for the students:
A.Family apartments in west campus, with a kitchen and toilet in each apartment.
B.Family apartments in east campus, with a kitchen and toilet in each apartment.
C. Student apartment building in east campus with public kitchens, toilets, and
bathrooms.
Each student has his own independent room, and the interior facilities are complete.
Students have independent desks and chairs, wardrobes, etc. each room is equipped
with air conditioning, telephone line interface and network port.
There are 11 students’ canteens with complete facilities and elegant dining environment,
including 2 Muslim canteens. There is a variety of food to meet the students' different
dining custom. The meal price is moderate, the tableware is clean, the food quality
and sanitation are guaranteed.
The university has various sports facilities for football, basketball, badminton, tennis,
table tennis, swimming. The university has a large gymnasium, which has hosted the
matches of the Chinese Olympic Games. The gymnasium covers an area of 13900
square meters, the total construction area is 23950 square meters.
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The total credits are not less than 27, including at least 21 credits of course work
Credit
and 6 credits of other requirements.
1.Rural Development and Management Studies
2.Social Security
Research Fields
3.Public Administration
4.International Development Policy and Governance
Course
Type No. Course Credit Semester
Obligatory 73123402 Advanced Development Studies 2 Fall
Obligatory 73123403 Social Research Methods 2 Fall
Planning and Management of Modern
Selective 73123404 2 Fall
Regional Development
Obligatory 73123414 Public Management 2 Fall
Obligatory 71120006 Guidance on Academic Thesis Writing 1 Spring
Research Integrity and Academic
Obligatory 71120004 1 Fall
Norms
Obligatory 73123406 Public Policy and Analysis 2 Fall
Community-based Natural Resource
Selective 74123402 3 Spring
Management
Obligatory 71800001 Elementary Chinese 3 Fall
Obligatory 12132590 Overview of China 3 Spring
Utilization of Electronic Information
Selective 72800004 Sources in Humanities and Social 1 Fall
Sciences
Selective 94123408 Development Models of China 1.5 Spring
Other Requirements
Task Requirements Deadline Credit
University and College History
Discipline History Education
One month after
1.Admission Education Faculty-Student Meeting 1
enrollment
Research Integrity Education
Chinese History and Culture
2.Draft of individual Within one month of
Two copies of the plan
program plan enrollment
3.Literature review and
Complete the thesis proposal By the end of May 2
dissertation proposal
Practices in teaching or
4. Practices End of second semester 1
research
5.Mid-term review of End of the third
Review of progress on thesis 2
thesis semester
6. Chinese Proficiency Achieving Level 3 of the Before graduation
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Assessment "International Chinese
Proficiency Standards"
7. Requirements for publication: none
The idea of "development" is the product of colonial rule over the years. This course
systematically summarizes the important issues in the field of development, these issues
were deeply rooted in the social sciences’ exploration of the essence of modern
industrial capitalism. However, since the collapse of the global colonial system, the new
elite began to push a new concept of development. In the following decades, many
policymakers and scholars also pay a close attention to the theory and practice of
development. Thus, the issue of development gradually formed its own distinctive
features, and continues to these days. This course aims to clarify the footprint of the
theory and practice of development in the past fifty years by teaching and discussion,
and refine the experience and lessons, so as to better serve the future development
research work.
Course Code (73123403): Social Research Methods (2 credits)
This course introduces the qualitative and quantitative design methods used in the study
of development issues in the field of social sciences. By classroom teaching and group
discussions, students will master the research strategies related to qualitative and
quantitative research, including know well about methodology basis of qualitative and
quantitative research methods, get familiar with the main points of the random and
non-random sampling (case selection) and how to carry on the questionnaire surveys,
interviews, observations, and use participatory tools for research and evaluation. This
course will make students learn the writing of the research proposal and a series of
methods to analyze the data using SPSS software
Course Code (73123404): Planning and Management of Modern Regional Development (2
credits)
Using the methods of participatory research, combining teaching and research, this
course focuses on the problems of rural development and management. Students choose
their own topics, find and read the relevant literature, complete a high level of literature
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review on the basis of constant discussion. In this process, this course will improve
students’ quality of analyzing and solving problems, and expand students’ scope of
knowledge about the rural development and management through mutual
communication and discussion, deepen students' understanding of the subject of rural
development and management. The teaching process emphasizes the interaction
between teachers and students as well as the interactive learning process between
students and students.
Public Policy and Analysis is an important course in the field of rural development and
management. It focuses on the following contents: The main frame and method of basic
concepts of public policy (basic concept, academic schools), public policy system and
the policy process (cycle), public policy analysis technique, the rural public policy and
the special status, the main policy issues of development of China's rural areas, and
public policy research design and organization.
The course teaching closely combines with the major theoretical and practical issues in
the development and management of rural areas. The teaching content fully embodies
the combination of ideas, theories, methods and practical cases.
The course aims to promote the reserve team’s capacity building of China's rural
development research and practice of reserve by the review and analysis of the concept
and methods of participatory learning and cases of Community-based Natural Resource
Management. At the same time, the course will contribute to narrowing the gap
between the current higher education and the reality of China's rural development.
The main content of the course: Introduces the definition and main features of
community based natural resource management, learn how to do this in the real
situation. The course will lead students to identify the main challenges that the
approach is facing: How the research work can promote researchers and the local
people’s understanding of the social life’s complexity, and promote the formation of
action foundation to solve relevant problems.
This course introduces China's reform and development path starting from rural and
agricultural areas, expanding to urban and industrial areas, government led
development models, advantages in political systems, how to eliminate absolute poverty,
cooperation in foreign agriculture and poverty reduction, industrial development,
urbanization, and special economic zone construction. It comprehensively analyzes and
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explains how China has become the world's second largest economy in just forty years,
reducing poverty in 770 million in rural areas. This course is dedicated to telling the
story of China, promoting confidence in the path, theory, system, and culture of
socialism with Chinese characteristics.
(4) Teaching Staff
The teachers for international students are carefully selected and arranged by the
college. These teachers all have the experience of education in foreign countries, are
fluent in teaching in English, and have associate professor or professor title. They are
experienced in development research and practices.
Our college adopts the participatory teaching method, focus on the interaction between
teachers and students. In addition to the teacher lectures, we will arrange the
discussion and communication between teachers and students, and organize group
discussions to share knowledge and insights among students. In addition to the
classroom teaching, our college invites the world's top scholars to deliver lectures about
development for every two weeks in average. Each lecture will arrange an interactive
session, so that students can ask questions and scholars will answer. We also arrange tea
break, so that students and the speakers will have a chance for further contact.
We often use case studies in our college, collect the key practices and cases of the world,
and analyze and discuss with the students to enable students to better understand the
complexity of the development problems in real world, and learn to rethink the purpose
and way of development with the developmental idea and view.
Course assignments will often require students to make PPT presentations on the
subject in class. On the one hand, students can better absorb the contents of the
classroom, on the other hand, to promote students to think deeply of what they learn
with the understanding of the development problem in reality. It can also train students'
thinking and communication ability.
In order to let the international students understand the current situation of China's rural
areas, we will arrange field trips in countryside for international students, so that they
can communicate with Chinese farmers, to analyze the needs and problems of the
farmers with the knowledge they learn in classes, to understand the development
activities and practices in China.
Our college also arranges a variety of study tours for the students, one is to understand
the approaches and achievements of China's agriculture and rural development, the
other is to visit the historical city of China, to enable the students to learn more about
the customs and cultures in different places in China.
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The Master program lasts for two years, divided into four semesters. Fall semester of
the first academic year start from early September, the winter vacation begins at next
year in late January, and it’s the end of the fall semester. The spring semester begins at
the end of February, ends in mid-July, and it’s the end of the spring semester and the
end of the first academic year. The second academic year starts from late August,
repeat the arrangement of first academic year. The graduation ceremony will be on
late June, and the students graduate in mid-July.
1.3.4 Thesis
The students are required to complete 27 credits, and pass the defense of thesis to be
able to graduate and get their Master degrees. The degree name is “Master of
Management”.
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2. Application Procedures
The program targets toward the following applicants, the basic requirements for the
applicants are:
(1) Applicants should be non-Chinese, from developing countries, physically and
mentally healthy, and are under 35 years old (born after September 1 of 1989).
(2) The applicants need to provide health certificate or physical examination form
issued by local public hospitals, without diseases which Chinese laws and regulations
prohibit the entry into and long-term residency in China. The applicants who have
severe hypertension, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer and other serious chronic
diseases, mental illness or are likely to cause significant harm to public health,
infectious diseases, major surgery and acute diseases, seriously disabled, are not
suggested to apply. The pregnant women should not apply. If the female students are
pregnant during the study, they should withdraw from the university.
(3) Applicants need to have excellent learning performance, have a bachelor's degree
and good university grades.
(4) We will give priority to those people who have academic background related to
humanities and literature arts, and work experience in the field of development.
(5) Applicants need to have a working position either in their home countries’
governments as or above Commander, or in organizations and companies as managers,
or in study institutions as important academic figures
(6) The applicants should be proficient in English to complete the study of courses and
thesis writing. The applicants should provide valid English proficiency certificate, such
as IELTS score 6.0 or above, or new TOEFL score 80 or above.
(7) Applicants should have the potential in the study field and dedicate to improve
relationships between China and their home countries and increase cooperation.
(8) Students who are currently studying in China or have got other Chinese government
scholarship cannot apply.
Applicants are required to complete the "Application Form for Foreign Students of
China Agricultural University" online at (http://apply.cau.edu.cn/). Please register and
log in using your personal email.
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Please follow these steps:
1.Select "Chinese Government Scholarship".
2.Select "Master Student".
3.Choose "College of Humanities and Development Studies(College of International
Development and Global Agriculture)", "Rural Development and Management", click
“apply”.
4.Fill out the " China Agricultural University Foreign Student Application Form".
5.Submit the required documents (specific requirements as indicated in "2.2.2
Application Material ").
Please prepare the documents shown in the following image and rename them
accordingly for upload to the CAU system.
Please note that in the CAU system, there are no specific upload windows for
academic/work experience, employer letter, recent passport photo, and other application
documents. Please submit these files in the "Other" file section.
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Before apply for our program, the applicants should get the approval and
recommendation from the relevant governments in applicants’ home countries. The
application procedures should be followed according to their government requirement.
If the applicants are allowed by their government to directly submit the application
materials to Chinese embassies, the related references and recommendation letters from
the government are required. Then the applicants should submit all the application
materials listed in the above sessions in both hard copy and scanned copy to the
Economic and Commercial Counsellor’s Office of Chinese Embassy. Hard copy must
include both the original copy and the photocopy. For emails and addresses of the
Economic and Commercial Counsellor’s Offices, please visit http://www.china-aibo.cn/,
please view the English version.
The related government agencies of the applicants should submit a written request to
the Economic and Commercial Counsellor’s Office of Chinese Embassy for issuing an
official recommendation letter for the applicant, and clearly state:
whether the applicant is willing to be considered for a similar program at other
universities if the programs you applied are already full.
Other special requests if any.
Important Notice:
a) All the documents to be submitted should be in Chinese or English. Otherwise, a
notarized translated version in Chinese or English is required.
b) An original copy of degrees, transcripts and language certificates must be presented
for on-site verification the Economic and Commercial Counsellor’s Office of
Chinese Embassy upon request. After the verification, the applicants should send
the scanned applications files to the contact persons in the targeted universities.
c) All the original and copied files need to be returned to the applicants after on-site
verification by the Economic and Commercial Counsellor’s Office of Chinese
Embassy. If admitted, the applicants must take these documents to China and
submit them to the universities to verify and archive.
d) Please note that the name of all application materials should be exactly the same as
the name of the passport. In case of disagreement, a written statement and a written
certificate from the authority should be issued.
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2.3 Deadline
The application deadline for this project is: May 10, 2024.
Further enrollment information will be communicated via email. Applicants are
encouraged to pay close attention to email notifications and carefully monitor the
application timeline to properly manage all matters.
(1)No matter what the results of the application are, all the application documents
will be not returned.
(2)No matter what the results of the application are, the Chinese government will not
give any explanation.
(3)The students can not take spouse or children with them when they come to China.
The program does not cover any cost for the visits of the student’s spouse and children.
(4)The details on how to come to China will be described in admission documents.
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