The China Education Centre acts as a non-profit organisation for the development of educational, cultural and professional links between Australia and China. It was established following the visit to China of a group of comparative educators from the University of Sydney in 1972.

The centre:

• encourages the interchange of information and opinion which shapes Australia-China relations
• provides services to the University of Sydeny's wider community, comprising academics, teachers, professional/business people and Sinophiles
• provides teaching in courses for visiting study-groups of teacher educators, educational administrators, teachers, scholars and students and in the formal academic programme of the Faculty by invitation
• conducts research in individual and co-operative programmes, with interests across many areas of education in China, as well as in the economic, politcial, cultural social and linguistic contexts of education.
• translates documents from China
• holds the "China Collection"
• provides assistance to Visiting Scholars from China
• provides placement of Australian students and scholars in China