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The Chinese Proficiency Standards for Vocational Education (hereinafter referred to as the Standards) is a group standard developedby the Center for Language Education and Cooperation of the Ministry ofEducation, drawing on the successful experience of the Chinese ProficiencyGrading Standards for International Chinese Language Education and theresults of the research on the determination of vocational skill levels invocational education. The Standards is designed to meet the needs ofvarious industries in using Chinese to communicate, promote the standardizationof vocational Chinese education and improve the quality of vocational Chineseteaching.
The Standards, proposed by the Center for Language Educationand Cooperation and attributed to the International Society for ChineseLanguage Teaching, is published and implemented on August 12, 2023.
The Standards is mainly designed for jobs in skill-based andservice-oriented fields and integrates the development requirements of languagecompetence on the basis of the Occupational Competence Standards, which canenhance learners’ language competence and vocational skills simultaneously,accelerate the cultivation of “Chinese + vocational skills” compound talents,and improve the Chinese language proficiency and vocational qualities of localemployees.
The Standards categorizes vocational competence into five levels:introductory, elementary, intermediate, advanced and proficient, and describethe Chinese language competence that learners at each level should possess interms of the definition of the level, description of the overall competence,and description of the sub-competencies (listening, speaking, reading andwriting). In addition, the Standards also describes in detail the vocationalcommunication strategies and cultural awareness (including verbal communicationstrategies, non-verbal communication strategies, affective strategies, culturalawareness and professionalism) that learners at each level should possess.

About the Author
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.  

Editorial Review
1. The Standards is a group standardin the field of vocational Chinese language education, and is an importantreference for the overall design, the teaching material compilation, andteaching and testing of vocational Chinese language teaching;
2. The Standards is the fundamentalbasis for the innovative assessment of vocational Chinese language teaching andlearning in skill-based and service-oriented fields;
3. The Standards is an importantbasis for exploring new teaching modes and constructing new teaching platformsin the context of the era of “Chinese + skills”;
4.The Standards is an important reference for promoting linguistic andtechnological consensus between China and the rest of the world.

Suggestion
This book is suitable for institutions offering vocational Chinese language education, teachers and researchers engaged in vocational Chinese language education and vocational Chinese language learners.