The issues of work in alignment with the strategy for developing the western regions , implementation of special programme of talents cultivation for western regions , disciplines setting under state sponsored study abroad programme sssap after chinese accession to wto , the management of chinese study fellows in the new situation and ways further attract international students studying in china are widely discussed in their meetings . june , the 2002 evaluation of sssap is completed 向他们汇报了近阶段留学基金委的工作开展情况和下一步工作设想与安排，并同他们就配合我国西部大开发战略加快西部地区人才培养的重点项目实施,加入wto后国家公派留学急需专业设置,新形势下出国留学人员的管理以及如何进一步吸引国外来华留学生等问题与委员们深入交换了意见。
" the top oversea students " means study abroad at the government ' s expenses or study abroad at one ' s own expense , after finishing study , they will work in scientific research , teaching , engineering technology , finance , management etc . , and get a remarkable success , they are the people of the top management , senior special technology , the outstanding technology and owning better industry development prospects rights , invention or special technology , and so on “海外高层次留学人才”是指：公派或自费出国留学，学成后在海外从事科研、教学、工程技术、金融、管理等工作并取得显著成绩，为国内急需的高级管理人才、高级专业技术人才、学术技术带头人以及拥有较好产业化开发前景的专利、发明或专有技术等人才。
January 1 with the approval of the ministry of finance and ministry of education , the levels of sponsorships under sssap for the following 16 asian and african countries were raised : tunis , egypt , mongolia , pakistan , thailand , laos , nepal , jordan , sri lanka , bangladesh , viet nam , india , burma , israel , morocco , and the philippines 1月1日经财政部教育部批准，提高了赴突尼斯埃及蒙古巴基斯坦泰国老挝尼泊尔约旦斯里兰卡孟加拉越南印度缅甸以色列摩洛哥菲律宾等亚非16国的国家公派留学人员的奖学金标准。
