Study Tour In China
Experience a Modern China With 5,000 Years of Heritage
We have established deep, enduring partnerships with leading schools across China, curating immersive study tours rooted in the unique cultural and academic heritage of their host cities. We warmly welcome New Zealand schools to visit China, and our team is dedicated to designing a customized itinerary tailored specifically to your educational goals.
The Neural Link & Silk Road - East China Immersion Program
Shanghai • Hangzhou • Wuzhen | A 10-Day Journey into Future & Past
This program is a "Dual-Core" immersion designed for students who crave real-world STEM experiences and authentic cultural depth. We take students to the Yangtze River Delta (YRD), a region where 1,000-year-old water towns coexist with world-leading AI laboratories.
• The Neural Core: Cutting-edge Neuroscience (BCI) & Robotics Engineering. Students are not merely visitors but intern engineers and scientists, completing challenging projects at Zhejiang University and BrianCo.
• The Cultural Core: The poetic Jiangnan region & the origins of the Silk Road. Students will treat Wuzhen, West Lake and the Silk Museum as dynamic cultural laboratories, exploring the journey from observation to hands-on cultural decoding.
• Peer-to-Peer Learning: "Cultural Ambassadors" (Chinese students) join in the journey, fostering authentic language exchange, collaborative problem-solving and feature explicit cross-cultural communication skills to cultivate global competence.
• Project-Based Learning: Engineer and code a Bio-mimetic Robot, translating biological motion into mechanics.
Itinerary Highlights
• Day 1: Arrival & Huangpu River Night Cruise. A visual dialogue between the colonial Bund ("The Museum of Buildings") and the futuristic Lujiazui skyline.
• Day 2: Shanghai Tower (World's 2nd tallest) to study wind-damping engineering. Yu Garden visit to understand Ming Dynasty aesthetics and "borrowed scenery."
• Day 3: Travel to Wuzhen Water Town. Ride traditional hand-cranked boats and visit the Indigo Fabric Dyeing Workshop.
◦ Highlight: See the venue of the World Internet Conference, where ancient canals meet digital innovation.
• Day 4: BrainCo Headquarters Visit. A deep dive into BCI technology and AI-driven
prosthetics.
• Day 5-7: Zhejiang University (ZJU) STEM Residency.
◦ Day 5: Mechanics & Biology – Translating animal motion to machines.
◦ Day 6: Fabrication & Assembly – Building the modular body.
◦ Day 7: Coding & Competition – Programming gait control and final demo.
• Day 8: West Lake (UNESCO Site) Cruise and Dragon Well Tea plantation visit. Learn the chemistry of roasting and the "Three Sides Mountains" landscape philosophy.
• Day 9: China National Silk Museum. Sericulture base visit. Return to Shanghai for a world-
class Acrobatic Show (The art of human balance).
• Day 10: Final Presentation, Certificate Ceremony, and Departure.