The Application Procedures and Introduction of JICA
It has been more than
20 years since Japan International Co-operation Agency (JICA) started
the Sino-Japanese Technical Cooperation (JICA) Project at the end
of the 1970s. Under the joint efforts of relevant units and people
from Japan and China, the cooperation has made great headway with
the scale of cooperation increasingly expanded. Some heartening and
gratifying achievements have been achieved. Sino-Japanese Technical
Cooperation (JICA) has had its great impact be felt in China and contributed
some contributions to China's social and economic development, science
and technology progress, and promoted the friendship and understanding
between Japanese people and Chinese people, those scientific and technological
personnel in particular.
Following is a guide to apply for JICA sponsored
programs and introduction of the JICA programs.
1. The Ningbo Science
and Technology Bureau issues a paper on preliminary examination of
English.
2. After the preliminary
examination of English, the top 10 trainees, who are full of enterprises
and have a good ideological cultivation, will be singled out. They
will be sent to Shanghai Training Center of the Ministry of Science
and Technology to attend the 6-month English training before the examination.
3. After the training,
they will attend the JICA foreign language proficiency test in Shanghai
or Beijing. All units can designate examinees to take part in the
examination according to the allotting form. As for the examination
place, the examinees can choose a place themselves.
4. According to the
allotting form of programs, the trainee's grades in the nationwide
unified foreign language examination, the major of the trainee, and
the professional work the trainee is engaging in will be taken into
consideration in the process of selection which will be done in a
comprehensive way according to the principle of enrolling the best
ones. Great importance will be attached to whether the major would
be geared to the needs of the job. In the case of same or similar
grades, those examinees whose major would be geared to the needs of
the job will be enrolled first, thus making it possible that some
examinees cannot be enrolled even if their grades are above the bottom
enrollment mark.
5. Japan will give
China the annual implementation list which will be disseminated to
relevant provincial and municipal units by the Department of International
Cooperation of the Ministry of Science and Technology. The list will
be implemented. Those programs which are not included in the implementation
list, even if examinations have been held, cannot be carried out.
6. Those people who
have been enrolled for further studies, upon receiving the confirmation
of the further study program (an explanation of required courses)
from Japan, should fill out Form A2 and A3 in English (in quintuple)
which will be sent to the Department of International Cooperation
of the Ministry of Science and Technology after the head of the superintending
department signed on it (without the official stamp of the superintending
department). If required, the consultation form or nationality report
(in triplicate) should be provided.
7. After receiving
JICA China Agency's acceptance notice (the original notice will be
saved as a file in the Ministry of Science and Technology), the student
to engage in further studies should go to the Ningbo Municipal Foreign
Affairs Office to get a passport and a visa to Japan.
8. Before leaving
for Japan, the student to engage in further studies should go to the
Security Bureau (located in No.43 Xinling Road) for education which
aims to get him/her familiar with foreign affairs and security matters,
and go to the Ningbo Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau (located
in No.146, Liuting Street, Haishu District) for vaccination and get
the Health Certificate and the International Certificate of Vaccination.
9. The student to
engage in further studies, after getting the passport and visa, should
go to Quanrikong Shanghai Representative Office (on the second floor
of Shanghai Shangcheng, No.1376, West Nanjing Road, Shanghai) to get
the international airplane ticket. Moreover he/she should go to the
Shanghai Training Center of the Ministry of Science and Technology
to attend the briefings for people who are going to pursue further
studies in Japan.
10. Upon coming back
to China, the student engaged in further studies in Japan should hand
his/her passport to the Ningbo Municipal Foreign Affair Office, at
the same time, should hand one written report on his/her further studies
in to the Division of Asian and African Affairs of the Ministry of
Science and Technology which will be edited and collected in a corpus
which will provide the latest development of the specified field in
Japan to those scientific and technological personnel who do not have
the opportunity to go to Japan. The name cards of Japanese personnel
should be photocopied and handed in. If possible, efforts should be
made to invite high-ranking Japanese people to Ningbo for exchange
and visit.