Program · Schools & institutions
Sister-School Partnerships
Since 2010, schools in Germany, Switzerland, and Spain have made Capital Mandarin their bridge to China (建立友好校). A sister-school agreement gives your students a Beijing campus, your teachers a training partner, and your school a program you don't have to build alone.
- When
- Year-round · agreements start any term
- Where
- Your school + our Beijing campus
- Class size
- Whole classes & visiting cohorts
- Ages
- Institutions · students of all ages
- Price
- Ask for a quote
What a partnership includes
Every agreement is shaped around your school, drawing on a standard menu:
- Study tours & camps — your students visit Beijing on itineraries we design and run: language classes, culture workshops, school visits, and excursions, with our staff handling ground logistics.
- Online Chinese classes — our teachers deliver live lessons into your timetable, so the partnership works between visits, not just during them.
- Teacher training — Chinese-teaching methodology from a school that has trained its own teachers from its first year, delivered in Beijing or remotely.
- Cultural exchange — pen-pal classes, joint projects, and reciprocal visits that give both schools’ students a real counterpart abroad.
A track record, not a pilot
Our first sister school — the Gentlemen’s School in Germany — signed on in 2010. A Geneva school followed in 2012, and in 2013 a Spanish partnership made us the only Chinese language school partner in Spain. Delegations and educators have visited the Gaobeidian campus from across Europe and beyond, including Russian university professors who came to study our teaching methods. Partnerships here are how the school grew — not a new product.
Why schools choose us
You get one accountable partner on the ground in Beijing: an established Mandarin school with its own campus in Gaobeidian Cultural Village, in-house teaching materials, and experience hosting groups of children and teens every summer. Your students get real classrooms and real Beijing — and your administrators get a single contact who answers.
Starting a partnership
Write to us with your school’s location, student ages, and what you want first — a visit, online classes, or teacher training. We’ll propose a concrete first-year plan and a draft agreement; most partnerships begin with a single study tour and grow from there.
Good to know
Your questions, answered
What does a sister-school agreement commit our school to?
Less than you'd fear. Agreements set out what each side offers — typically our classes, tours, and training on one side, and your school's participation and coordination on the other. There's no franchise fee or exclusivity demanded of you; costs attach to the activities you actually book.
How do our students benefit between visits to China?
Through the online arm of the partnership: our teachers deliver live Chinese lessons into your timetable, classes exchange projects and letters with counterparts in Beijing, and your own Chinese teachers can take our methodology training remotely.
How does a study tour for our students work?
You bring the group; we run the ground program — language classes, culture workshops, school visits, excursions, meals, and accommodation arrangements in Beijing, with our staff coordinating throughout. Itineraries are built to your term dates and student ages.
How do we start, and how fast can the first activity happen?
Write to us with your school's location, student ages, and the first activity you have in mind. A draft agreement and first-year plan usually take a few weeks to agree; a study tour can realistically run within the same school year, and online classes can start sooner.
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