Hanban provides a grant for the establishment of a Confucius Institute at the University of Liverpool (Linked to Record ID#90314)

Project narrative

On December 5, 2008, the University of Liverpool and Xi'an Jiaotong University signed an agreement at Hanban (Confucius Institute Headquarters) to co-organize the Confucius Institute at the University of Liverpool. As part of the agreement, Hanban is obligated to provide 3,000 volumes of teaching materials, a necessary start-up 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. The partnering Chinese university is Xi'an Jiaotong University, which collaborated with the University of Liverpool in the past to create Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in Suzhou, China. The Confucius Institute was officially unveiled and opened on October 23, 2009. The ceremony was opened by Madam Lin Wenyi, Vice-Chairman of the 11th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. The Confucius Institute is the 12th Institute to be established in the UK, providing a hub for Liverpool city's relationship with China. The institute will be based in the University's Management School and its resources will be shared with the University and Calday Grange Grammar School on the Wirral. On June 26, 2017, the Confucius Institute at the University of Liverpool opened a Confucius Classroom at Carmel College, a project funded by grant from Hanban. This project is tracked separately under ID#90314. The Confucius Institute at the University of Liverpool oversaw the following Confucius Classroom: - ID#90314: Carmel College