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This paper presents the results of a comprehensive survey on the teaching of Chinese at academic institutes in German-speaking countries. It describes the diversity of the study programmes offered, the scope of Chinese language courses their target competencies, number of students, number and back ground of teaching staff and the textbooks being used. In addition, the survey collected information on the workload estimated via ECTS in relation to the contact hours of language courses. In addition to Bachelor programmes, the study envisaged Chinese language training within Master programmes as well as the integration of semesters abroad, the relevance of standardized examinations like HSK and TOCFL and additional courses in pre-modern/ classical Chinese. The results show that academic language training in Chi nese as a core subject in the framework of Academic Chinese studies is an extraordinarily complex task with a high diversity of competence goals: which can by no means be reached sufficiently in the framework of an aver ane three-year Bachelor programme and which is still lacking human re sources at many China-oriented university institutes [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]