“ Our goal is to continue to grow and to do it with quality, because our role is not only to teach the language, but also to offer services to the government, enterprises, to transmit our culture and to strengthen much more the relations with the rest of the world “ XU LIN.
Councillor of the State Council of the Chinese Republic in with regard to education and culture, general manager of Hanban and member of National Committee of the twelfth Politic Advisory of China (CCPPCh). 

The Confucius Institute are collaborations with Universities of China and they are tutored by the Office of the International Council of Chinese Language （国家汉办）, known as Hanban, whose head office can be found in Beijing.

Hanban is a non-governmental institution and the executive organ of the International Council of Chinese Language, affiliated with the Ministry of Education.  It is the representation of the diffusion of the language and the culture of China and it provides the services and didactic resources necessary for its teaching, contributing to the multicultural development through the union among universities. For this reason, it focuses its work in:

• To promote the programmes of Chinese language in institutions of various types and levels present in other countries.
• To advise and guide Confucius Institutes Headquarter at the establishment of Rooms and Confucius Institute.
• To define and establish the criteria for the education of the Chinese language as foreign language, to carry out the obtaining of the evaluations and to promote the materials for the teaching of the language.
• To encourage and to establish the certifications for the teachers, as well as the training courses.
• It favours the incorporation of the teachers and Chinese voluntary workers in the foreign national.
• Providing certification tests for the teaching of Chinese language as foreign language.
• Defining the criteria for the creation of teaching online portals of Chinese language as foreign language and building a suitable access platform.

According to the 8th Confucius Institute Conference, celebrated at Beijing (China), now 443 Confucius Institutes and 646 Confucius Rooms exist, distributed in 120 countries or regions of the five continents. Moreover, there are more than 400 overture requests for 71 countries.

It is also noted that during 2013, more than 850,000 students signed up in Chinese courses, more than 20,000 activities were carried out and about 5,346 academic conferences were organised.

In this way, the interest and the concern about China for dedicating in the promotion and education of its language and culture are reflected, in order to transmit a positive image of the country. In the last conference, Xu Lin, member of the Politic Advisory Council of China, advisor of Council of the State, executive member of General Office Council of Confucius Institute and general manager of Hanban, summarized the main goals they will confront in the near future, as a institution:

• Improvement of the quality of the Chinese language and culture teaching and the management of the Confucius Institutes, adapting to the necessities or locals circumstances.
• Better integration of the Confucius Institutes, both in the life and university community and in the dynamics of the community or region generally.
• The increase of the teachers to deal with an increasing demand and more education for the teachers.
• Promoting the cultural exchanges for the co-operation and encouragement of the understanding and friendship between China and the rest of nations.
• Promoting the projects of the “Confucius Programme of New Chinese Studies”, “Exemplary Confucius Institutes” and the setting of “Confucius Institute Day.”

Finally, it is necessary to mention the Co-operation and Exchange Plan in education between Spain and China, established in 2011-2014, to go deep in the design of a new model of sustainable economic and social development whose keys are in the enterprising culture, the innovation and research, the foreign language learning, the valuation of the human capital, the integration in ICT and its connection and opening to the new global society.