The school offers various programmes geared toward different types of students, including Cantonese and Mandarin programmes for foreigners, Mandarin classes for Hong Kongers, and Cantonese classes for Mainland Chinese students and migrants to Hong Kong.

[1] The school is headquartered at the CUHK campus in Shatin, and had additional classrooms in Jordan, Kowloon from July 2017 until May 2020.

[2] In 1963 the school received support from New Asia College and the Yale-China Association and was renamed New Asia–Yale-in-China Chinese Language Centre.

[3] A new headquarters for the school, located at the CUHK campus across the street from University station, was built at a cost of $1.5 million with the support of the Fong Shu Fook Tong Foundation.

The so-named Fong Shu Chuen Building was opened on 24 January 1980 by Chief Secretary Jack Cater.