Hanban provides a grant for the establishment of the Confucius Institute at New Mexico State University

Project narrative

On March 13, 2007, the Confucius Institute Headquarters (Hanban) and the New Mexico State University signed an agreement to establish the Confucius Institute at New Mexico State University. 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 2007, New Mexico State University and two Chinese institutions (Shijiazhuang Vocational College of Science & Technology and Hebei Normal University), the cooperating partners, signed a supplementary implementation agreement. These two institutions agreed to provide one or two visiting scholars annually, donate teaching materials, and receive student study groups. The Confucius Institute was officially established on August 26, 2007. The Confucius Institute closed in 2020.