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1993 2500200 Hua Xia Chinese School founded in 1993 by a group of Chinese community volunteers in the great Houston area is a notforprofit organization registered with the State of Texas. It started with teaching simplified Chinese characters and the Pinyin system and has since grown into the largest Chinese language and culture learning center in the Southern United States. Our mission is to foster bilingual talents and future leaders through high quality Chinse language arts and culture education. Our vision is to create and sustain the most optimal Chinese language arts and culture education environment that inspires and enables all students to achieve success and positively impact the modern multicultural society.