The Chinese Language Center of Hunan University

Since 1992, the Chinese Language Center has undertaken the teaching of Chinese to more than 3,000 students from countries and regions such as the United States, Canada, Ecuador, Guyana, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Finland, Sweden, Holland, Russia, Czech, Mongolia, Japan, Vietnam, South Korea, Thailand, Laos, Malaysia, Egypt, Ghana, Israel, Nigeria and Burundi.

There are more than 20 full-time and part-time experienced teachers working at the Chinese Language Center. All the teachers are holders of postgraduate qualifications, among 12 whom are holders of doctoral degrees and senior professional titles. The teachers are specialized in the areas of linguistics and applied linguistics, international Sinology and distance teaching of Chinese as a second language. More than 70 percent of the teachers have served as teachers of Chinese or educational management staff in countries like the United Kingdom, Canada, South Korea, Japan, Thailand and Russia.

This center hosts the testing of BCT (Business Chinese Test) in Central China and oversees the writing of testing papers and candidate instructions for "Chinese Bridge 2009" (Chinese Proficiency Competition for Foreign College Students) organized by Hanban (Chinese Language Council International). The center has also cooperated with the Confucius Institute in South Korea and Chinese Language Centers in Vietnam.