This includes the founding of Confucius Institute at universities to promote Chinese culture and language.

The establishment of some Confucius Institutes has been opposed or blocked by faculty members at universities.

In 2005, the first Confucius Institute was established in Africa.

Now it is one of the biggest and well-known Confucius Institute in Russia.

Also, Nankai established dozens of Confucius Institutes all around the world.

Confucius Institute also have non-academic goals, according to scholars and journalists.

The curriculum of Confucius Institutes revolves around the institute's role as a language center.

Since 2008 the university is also home to one of Germany's few Confucius Institutes.

This compared to the seventy some Confucius Institutes throughout the United States.

The Confucius Institute was opened that academic year.