In December 2004, Pakistan concluded an agreement with the China Scholarship Council to send official scholarship students to China; the first batch of 300 were scheduled to enroll at 15 different universities in China in June 2005, with later batches of 500 each over the following five years.
2004年12月，巴基斯坦与国家留学基金委员会达成协议，向中国派遣正式奖学金学生；第一批300人计划于2005年6月在中国15所不同的大学入学，随后的5年中，将派遣每批500人共2500人。