The Chinese Ministry of Education, the Center for Language Education and Cooperation, and the Kathmandu University, on Sunday, held a workshop on “Chinese Proficiency Grading Standards for International Chinese Language Education”.

The seminar aimed to help the teaching departments and local Chinese teachers of Nepal and South Asia better understand the Chinese Proficiency Grading Standards for International Chinese Language Education and enhance its promotion and application in South Asia, Nepal and South Asia.

Hundreds of people, including Chinese education experts and scholars, local teachers, and students from various South Asian countries were in attendance.

The workshop, run both offline and online, also had various keynote speakers from Nepal, India, Bangladesh and other South Asian countries.

The event focused on the explanation, discussion and training of the Grade Standards and the corresponding Hanyu Shuiping Kaosh (HSK), the standardised test of Standard Chinese language proficiency of Mainland China for non-native speakers, examination reform.