Confucius Institute (English: Confucius Institute) is a cultural exchange institution established worldwide by the Office of the National Leading Group for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language in China, aiming at promoting Chinese, spreading China culture and China culture education. One of the most important tasks of Confucius Institute is to provide standardized and authoritative modern Chinese textbooks for Chinese learners all over the world. Provide the most formal and main Chinese teaching channels. The first Confucius Institute in the world was formally established in Seoul, South Korea in 2004. By February 7th, 20 14, 475 Confucius Institutes and 85/kloc-0 Confucius Classrooms had been established in 26 countries (regions). 120 countries (regions) have 475 Confucius Institutes, of which 32 countries (regions) in Asia have 103, 29 countries in Africa have 42, 39 countries in Europe have 159, and 7 countries in America have/kloc-0. Confucius classrooms are distributed in 65 countries ***85 1 (Comoros, Myanmar, Mali, Tunisia, Seychelles and Vanuatu only have classrooms and no colleges), including 79 in Asia 17, Africa 18 and 25 countries in Europe 2 1655. 120 12 5 In May, the United States conducted an academic review of Confucius Institute and asked some teachers to leave the country, which triggered a heated public opinion. 20/kloc-in September, 2004, the University of Chicago and Pennsylvania State University announced that they would stop their cooperation with the Confucius Institute in China. 220 14, 14 In February, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded whether the Confucius Institute restricted academic freedom in American universities. On June 30th, 2065438+05, the Confucius Institute at Stockholm University in Sweden closed. 20 15 12.6 It was learned from the 10th Confucius Institute Conference held in Shanghai that up to now, China has established 500 Confucius Institutes and 1000 Confucius Classrooms in 134 countries and regions, with a total of1900,000 students.