Huaqiao University is an international university, which is set up by the Chinese government and takes cultivating overseas Chinese and Chinese youths as its objective. It¡¯s located in Quanzhou and Xiamen of Fujian province. Huaqiao University has a complete system, which offers the education of doctor degree, master degree, bachelor degree and college preparatory courses. Its majors cover science, engineering, economics, management, law, liberal-arts, philosophy, history, agriculture, education and so on. With 23 colleges or departments, now there are 28,000 students from different countries in school£¬among whom 3,600 are trans-frontier students from 40 countries, as well as from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.
Chinese Language and Culture College of Huaqiao University (formerly Jimei Continuation School for Overseas Students, Jimei Chinese Language and Culture College) is located in the Xiamen Special Economic Zone .The College has a history of fifty years, during which it has engaged in training overseas students in Chinese. It is one of initial educational institutions that are given the authority to recruit students from abroad by the Chinese Ministry of Education. It is one of the major bases for the Chinese language education authorized by the Office of Overseas Chinese Affairs of the State Council ,¡¡one of the key schools supported by the NOCFL(National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign language)in their Chinese teaching of the adjacent countries , and also the earliest HSK exam center set up in Fujian Province by the NOCFL HSK Committee. ¡°Training Chinese skills, spreading Chinese culture¡± are the main features of the college. The college has a group of first-class Chinese teachers who can speak standard mandarin and have the certificate of the capability in TCFL(Senior Certificate of Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language). In addition, the college has complete facilities for teaching and accommodation , including language¡¡labs , multimedia classrooms, Internet classrooms and an E-library . There are also comfortable dormitories for students and complete facilities such as canteen, supermarket and playgrounds.
