Hanban provides a grant for the establishment of the Confucius Institute at the University of Hawaii at Manoa

Project narrative

On June 28, 2006, the Confucius Institute Headquarters (Hanban) and the University of Hawaii at Manoa signed an agreement to establish the Confucius Institute at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. As part of the agreement, Hanban is obligated to provide teaching materials, an annual fund, and numbers of Chinese instructors. The funds are dispersed through a local Bank of China account or other approved bank account created by the institute. The agreement has a 5-year validity and automatically renews at the end of every 5-year term. In 2006, University of Hawaii at Manoa and Beijing Foreign Studies University (北京外国语大学), the cooperating partner, signed a supplementary implementation agreement. Beijing Foreign Studies University agreed to provide one or two visiting scholars annually, donate teaching materials, and receive student study groups. The Confucius Institute was officially established on November 6, 2006. In 2015, Hanban provided a $1 million USD grant to the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa for the renovation of the Confucius Institute at the University of Hawaii at Manoa as part of its designation as a "Model Confucius Institute", at the first-floor makai wing of Moore Hall on the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa campus in Honolulu, Hawaii, as captured by Record ID#110351. The Confucius Institute closed on May 31, 2019.