China Will Resume Fulbright Program

BEIJING — China has agreed to resume participation in the Fulbright program but on a smaller scale than in recent years, the U.S. Embassy said Monday.

Chinese education officials agreed to send 16 Chinese scholars and students to the United States next year to do research and accept 16 U.S. professors to teach, said embassy spokesman Sheridan W. Bell. He said the embassy is still awaiting a letter formalizing the agreement.

China took part in the U.S. scholarly exchange program for a decade, with 24 scholars traveling in each direction in recent years.

It abruptly canceled the 1989-90 academic year exchanges in August in anger over U.S. criticism of the army’s killing of pro-democracy protesters in Beijing.