问答题 "Confucius Institute" is a non-profit public institute with a mission to promote the Chinese language and culture in the world and to support the local Chinese teaching. The English name for the institute is "Confucius Institute". Confucius is a well-known thinker, educator and philosopher in Chinese history, and his doctrine has a very important influence in the world. To name this institute after him shows the extensive and profound accumulation of Chinese language and culture with a long history. It also embodies the trend for the integration of Chinese language and culture into the world in the new century.