The MAZU Scholarship, named after Mazu, the traditional Chinese goddess of the sea, has received 1 million yuan from Bank of China (BOC) and 2 million yuan from Putian merchants in China and overseas. The funds will support the scholarship and a customized MAZU cloud platform in Nepal. MAZU is a suite of artificial-intelligence weather solutions launched by the China Meteorological Administration (CMA, China’s weather authority) in 2025 and aligned with the United Nations’ Early Warnings for All initiative. It supports cloud testing in more than 40 countries and has been used in Pakistan, Ethiopia, the Solomon Islands, Jordan, Sri Lanka, Mongolia and Djibouti. The CMA announced the scholarship in June during the 80th session of the World Meteorological Organization’s Executive Council. It primarily serves visiting meteorology researchers from Belt and Road partner countries and frontline meteorological professionals from developing nations. Related MAZU training has reached more than 1,000 frontline meteorological workers in nearly 100 developing countries. The CMA and Putian in Fujian province plan to establish a global MAZU practices-promotion base to share replicable early-warning approaches.