Having begun admitting international students in 1979, Xi’an International Studies University (XISU) established the first dedicated institution for teaching Chinese as a foreign language in Northwest China. For more than 40 years, over 20,000 international students from 45 countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Germany, France, Italy, Russia, Spain, Belgium, Australia, Canada, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan, have completed their studies in XISU and returned home.