The official HSK Twitter account announced that the country’s Chinese language examination, known as HSK (汉语水平考试) will be reformed in 2020. New Chinese proficiency standards will be overhauled with a newly structured system of testing – meaning your old HSK books will likely lose some value.

New requirements as denoted by HSK level number of new items/cumulative items

This new model will now have nine levels in total, spread out among three stages (beginner, intermediate and advanced).

The current HSK format, which is a six-tiered international standardized Chinese language testing system, was introduced in 2010 and focuses on writing, reading and listening skills (writing sections are excluded for HSK 1 and 2). There’s a separate test administered for oral skills.

HSK将变成9级！

今年HSK将进行第二次改革。

随着海外中文教育的发展，以及以《欧洲语言共同参考框架》（CEFR）和《美国外语教学委员会量表》（ACTFL）为代表的国际语言标准新理念，越来越多人意识到，通过顶层设计，建设研发一套超越HSK考试本身，用以指导国际中文学习、教学、考试与评估的汉语水平等级标准，刻不容缓。

2015年起，孔子学院总部在数十名中外专家学者和中国国家语委的支持下，开始了新的标准研发。经过5年的努力，新的《汉语水平等级标准》诞生了，主要有三方面突破：一是体现汉语独特性，确定音节、汉字、词汇、语法的四维语言量化指标体系，以准确锚定学习者的汉语水平；二是根据汉语教学和学习进阶分为“初、中、高”的惯例，以及CEFR、ACTFL等国际语言标准分为初级、中级和高级三个阶段的习惯，结合海外学习者和HSK考试现状，将新的标准分为三等九级（如表1）。与HSK的考试要求相比，不仅增加了音节、汉字的项目要求，而且对词汇量，特别是高等7-9级的词汇要求有较大提高；三是借鉴广受认同的语言学习理论，特别是巴赫曼等的交际语言能力模型，结合汉语特点，对各等、级，采用语言量化指标、言语交际能力和话题任务内容3个语言水平维度和听、说、读、写、译5个技能维度，即“3+5”的新路径对学习者的汉语水平进行全方位、立体系统地描述。

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