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China, Hangzhou
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HFLS participates in the Zhejiang-Minnesota Education Cooperation Project; since 1986, a six-month teacher exchange occurs annually, benefiting more than 15,000 students over 25 years. HFLS was designated as Hanban base school in 2007; annually three HFLS teachers assist two Confucius classrooms in the UK and USA, and HFLS hosted over 70 exchange students from the UK through Chinese Bridge in 2009. HFLS has sister-school partnerships across Asia, Europe, North America and Oceania, including Sidwell Friends School in the USA and The King's School, Grantham in the UK; over 80 HFLS students participate in sister-school exchanges each year and more than 10 groups visit from overseas institutions. HFLS maintains overseas university partnerships with The University of Iowa, North Carolina State University, University of Toronto, ESIGELEC, Bocconi University, the National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University and the University of Liverpool; in 2008 the UK A-level curriculum was introduced and a Cambridge International High School Experiment Program established, with the first cohort of 58 students admitted to top universities in the USA and UK, including 5 to Cambridge University and Oxford.
Hangzhou Foreign Languages School (HFLS) was founded in 1964 and is administered by the Zhejiang Education Department. The school is sited in the Xiaoheshan higher-education zone in west Hangzhou and operates an integrated middle- and high-school programme. The campus covers more than 150 mu (building area near 70,000 m²) and the website lists facilities including dormitories, laboratories, a library with over 120,000 volumes, a gymnasium, tennis courts and a soccer field with running tracks. HFLS emphasises foreign-language study: English is the main foreign language and the school also teaches French, German, Japanese and Spanish. The site records that HFLS introduced a UK A‑level pathway in 2008 and runs a Cambridge international high-school project; the school also has a formal recommendation quota for admission to top Chinese universities. Recent website notices show about 54 classes and more than 2,000 students on campus.
