The British proposed to legislate to report overseas funds, and the British media hype "widely accept Sino -Russian funds in colleges and universities!"

[Global Times Special Reporter Zhou Zhuobin in the UK] The British "Times" reported on the 13th that the British government proposed an amendment to the British "Higher Education (Freedom) Act" this week, requiring British universities Details. It is reported that the amendment to the submitted to the lower house of the parliament proposed that British universities need to report over 75,000 pounds of overseas donations and financial arrangements, and funds from Japan and Australia can be exempted.

The amendment requires that in response to the support of funds from some countries, organizations such as British universities and student unions must explain the fund arrangement in the annual report submitted by the Student Affairs Office of the British Ministry of Education (OFS). The Secretary of State Minister Michel Dolan, who is in charge of higher education and continuing education, claims that the amendment will protect British universities from "improper foreign influence". The Times quoted the British government sources as saying that the move would give OFS more power to investigate and take actions of universities that have "improper connections" with foreign entities.

The Times reported that the amendment was proposed in the context of widely accepting funds such as China and Russia, such as China and Russia. Since last year, a large number of British media have speculated that colleges and universities including Cambridge University and Oxford University have received donations from individuals and groups from China and Russia to discredit these funds to "interfere" British academic freedom.

According to the Times, many members of the house also proposed another amendment to ask British universities to disclose the funds and cooperation relationships with the Confucius Institute. Among the members of the co -signed, many members of the "China Research Group" who were sanctioned by China.

A spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said earlier that the cultural exchanges between China and Britain have long been strongly promoted to communicate and understand each other between the people of the two countries. "We hope that the relevant parties will be able to treat this objectively, and do more about the humanistic exchanges between the two countries and the promotion of the development of Sino -British relations, rather than the out of nothing.

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