To establish as an internationally renowned, research-led assembly of skilled specialists in Chinese language education to initiate, facilitate and participate in research projects related to the advancement of Chinese Language education to disseminate research on Chinese language education throughout the region and further afield through publications, seminars, conferences and workshops to establish and maintain contacts with school teachers and principals, education researchers and research institutions in Chinese speaking territories, locally and internationally to provide a centre from which institutions and organisations can draw upon human and other resources for contracted research, consultation and training in relation to the Chinese language education to provide a platform for in-service teachers and educational researchers to share experience in the teaching of Chinese, the use of Chinese Language across the curriculum, and the use of information technology in Chinese Language learning and teaching.