The Center for Language Education and Cooperation (CLEC) is a non-profit professional educational institution for international Chinese language education, affiliated with the Chinese Ministry of Education (MOE). CLEC is committed to providing quality services for people from all over the world to learn Chinese and understand China. It also intends to build a platform for friendly collaboration on language education and cross-cultural learning. CLEC is specifically responsible for coordinating the construction of resource system of international Chinese language education, participating in the formulation and implementation of related standards of international Chinese language education, supporting the construction of international Chinese language teachers, teaching materials, disciplines, etc. and academic researches, implementing the examinations for teachers of Chinese to speakers of other languages and the series of Chinese language proficiency examinations for foreigners, and carrying out relevant assessment and recognition.