The supervisor determines your funding, your research, your equipment access and your graduation timeline. This is the most important decision in a Chinese postgraduate application.
A 19-year-old Vietnamese student applied to two scholarship schemes, was rejected by one, and ended up at Fudan University with full funding and HSK 6.
A Swedish graduate student spent his final master's semester at SJTU's Antai College, working on stock market reactions to China's carbon-neutrality pledge.
She accepted the offer in two days, cried over Chinese in her first year, and now studies vehicle engineering in Mandarin alongside Chinese classmates.