In the summer of 2012, over 500 CUHK students joined the University’s Global Internship Programme (GIP) in 22 countries and 21 cities in mainland China. The number of participants was 70% more than the previous year. Organized by the Office of Student Affairs, GIP has been developed to provide students with a diversity of internship and cultural exchange opportunities since 1997. Now, more than 3,200 students have benefitted from it.