It assesses the examinees' ability to use the Chinese language in communicative activities and understanding in a study environment in educational institutions, enterprises and other organizations. The HSK is the abbreviation of Chinese Pinyin: Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi.

The HSK consists of HSK (Basic), HSK (Elementary-Intermediate), HSK (Advanced), HSK (for Young Learners), HSK (for Business), HSK (for Secretaries), HSK (for Tourism). The HSK can fulfil the needs of testing and evaluating Chinese language proficiency in worldwide.

The functions of HSK Certificates are:

1. to certify that the holder has acquired the required Chinese proficiency to enter a college or university as an undergraduate or graduate student.
2. to certify that the holder can be exempt from taking the Chinese language course depending on the level of certification.
3. to be a basis for the employers to evaluate the Chinese proficiency of the job applicants.

UCC HSK Centre is one of two in Ireland.  HSK is held in April, June, October and November each year at UCC. Certificates of HSK will be issued to those who have secured the required scores.

The UCC HSK centre is located in the Irish Institute of Chinese Studies and UCC Confucius Institute in O'Rahilly Building, UCC.

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