There has been a huge increase in the number of Chinese students studying in Universities in Israel. The University of Haifa has 200 Chinese students with the majority coming from the University of East China Normal University in Shanghai, which is a sister city of Haifa. In March 2017, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Economy Minister Eli Cohen were present when Robin, along with the Hangzhou Wahaha Group and the Institute of Automation at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, signed a $10-million deal that finalized the construction of three Israeli-Chinese artificial intelligence technology centers in Haifa, Hangzhou and Beijing.The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology has also seen an influx of Chinese students in recent years and during the 2016-2017 academic year, the school had 117 full-time Chinese students, and 177 Chinese students enrolled in its summer school of engineering. The Technion has been intensifying its academic cooperation with Chinese universities and students, and in 2013, together with Shantou University (STU), received a $130m. grant from the Li Ka Shing Foundation to establish a branch of the Technion in the Guangdong Province. The Technion hailed the partnership as "a new era of research and innovation in science, engineering and life sciences, an unprecedented cooperation between the People's Government of Guangdong Province and Shantou Municipal Government, Technion, and STU." The highly anticipated addition to the Technion is scheduled to open its doors in October. Some 240 students from several provinces in China have enrolled for study at the Technion branch, which offers three engineering programs: chemical, material science and biotechnology and food engineering.
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