The Host Organization of HSK
The Chinese Ministry of Education has established the State Committee for the Chinese Proficiency Test (SCCPT). The Committee fully supervises the Chinese Proficiency Test (HSK) and is the host organization inside and outside of
SCCPT has set up an office, which is called the Office of the State Committee for the Chinese Proficiency Test (OSCCPT), located at the Department of Testing, China National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language.
In order to accommodate to the needs of the development, the SCCPT decided to set up the HSK Designing and
Institutions for Designing and Developing the HSK
In 1984, the Chinese Ministry of Education entrusted the Beijing Languages Institute (Now, Beijing Language and
In 2002, the SCCPT entrusted Nanjing Normal University to design and develop the HSK (for Young Learners), entrusted Peking University to design and develop the HSK (for Business), entrusted Capital Normal University to design and develop the HSK (for Secretaries) and entrusted Shanghai Teachers' University to design and develop the HSK (for Tourism).
Countries of Conducting the HSK
Since HSK was officially put into practice, it has been set up in 140 testing centers in 34 countries or the world. These countries are:











