The Faculty of Business at Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Bathurst is hosting a five-week visit by six scholars from its partner institutions in Kunming, Tianjin, and Changchun in China. Faculty of Business spokesperson, Professor John Hicks, said the scholars are in Australia as part of an Australian Leadership Awards Fellowship Program funded by AusAID for a research project titled ‘Achieving balanced growth in domestic and external markets in China’. “The project aims to promote joint research between Charles Sturt University and its partner institutions in China on issues related to regional business and economics,” Professor Hicks said. “The scholars arrived in early September and are spending the first four weeks in Bathurst where they are involved in joint research using input-output modelling and other related techniques to derive policy outcomes. Several joint research papers are being prepared which will add to the series of publications generated by previous AusAID Fellowships in 2010 and 2011.” The current research findings were presented at a Faculty of Business in-house seminar on Thursday 20 September in Bathurst. The Chinese scholars will visit CSU in Wagga Wagga and Albury-Wodonga in the first week of October to make similar presentations.