Yingying Zhang was most likely hijacked on 9 June after she entered a dark Saturn Astra that seemed, by all accounts, to be driven by a white man, the FBI said.
The 26-year-old agrarian sciences understudy was around a month and a half into her examinations when she disappeared at the University of Illinois.
Prizes totalling $50,000 (£39,000) have been offered for her protected return.
Police have discharged CCTV video demonstrating the understudy getting into the auto at the grounds, around 150 miles (240km) from Chicago, at 14:04 nearby time.
The vehicle “seemed to driven by a white male, and circumnavigated the range before reaching Zhang”, the FBI said in an abducting announcement.
On Tuesday, FBI examiners reported they have found the vehicle in the wake of accepting “various leads” from people in general.
FBI representative Brad Ware declined to state where the auto was found, or give any insights about the evident leap forward.
“We have built up a few extra leads and might want to remind people in general this is as yet a dynamic examination,” the organization said in an announcement.
The Chinese Deputy Consul General in Chicago, Yu Peng, said after the auto was found: “The Consulate General of The People’s Republic of China in Chicago has been in close contact with the university, police division and FBI.”
The graduate of Beijing’s prestigious Peking University disappeared minutes in the wake of getting off a transport on her approach to sign a condo rent.
She had been inquiring about plant photosynthesis and was wanting to look for her PhD in the pre-winter, as indicated by the college.
Police say they are working with taxi-hailing organizations Uber and Lyft, trusting they will have the capacity to help decide the driver’s character.
Ms Zhang’s case has pulled in immense measures of consideration in her nation of origin
A WeChat informing bunch has been set up there to share insights about the case, which is drifting on Chinese online networking.
Numerous Chinese speakers have likewise given cash and left messages of help on a crowdfunding page which was set up to help her family with “costs acquired as the look for her proceeds”.
That pledge drive has effectively raised more than treble its objective of $30,000.
Her dad has made a trip from Nanping to do whatever he can to aid the examination, US media report.
A University of Illinois understudy walk is made arrangements for Thursday to indicate bolster for the missing understudy.