Since 2009 when Hanban introduced the New Chinese Proficiency Test(HSK), there has been a rapid increase in the number of HSK candidates as the number of Chinese learners keeps growing. The global number of HSK candidates reached 310,000 in 2012, and the number in the first quarter of 2013 alone was around 70,000. With International Chinese Education gaining more strength as an academic discipline and more Confucius Institutes being established in the world. the number of HSK candidates will be even larger in the future.

HSK Test

They developed HSK Standard Course (hereinafter referred to as Course), a series of new type of course books combining testing and teaching, based on years experience of Chinese teaching and research on HSK.

New HSK	Vocabulary	CLPS	CEF
HSK (Level VI)	Over 5,000	Level V	C2
HSK (Level V)	2500	Level V	C1
HSK (Level IV)	1200	Level IV	B2
HSK (Level III)	600	Level III	B1
HSK (Level II)	300	Level II	A2
HSK (Level I)	150	Level I	A1