A scholarship is an award of financial aid for students who intend to further their education. In China, the scholarship for overseas students can be categorized into two kinds, full scholarship, and partial scholarship. The full scholarship contains free tuition, free accommodation, monthly allowance, comprehensive medical insurance. It is usually offered by China government and sometimes by the local government and the universities. Meanwhile, the full scholarship has more strict requirements for the applicants than the partial one and is limited to the freshman only.

The partial scholarship contains one or some items of the full scholarship, such as free tuition, free accommodation, monthly stipend, comprehensive medical insurance. It is usually offered by the local government and the universities. Meanwhile, the partial scholarship has less strict requirements for the applicants than the full scholarship and is not only allowed for the freshman and all overseas students.