In January 2025, Irina Chudnova, head of foreign projects at Sinolingua Publishing House, visited Kazan Innovative University to discuss possible areas of cooperation in book supply for teaching Chinese as a foreign language.

Sinolingua is a member of the China International Publishing Group (CIPG), the first publishing house in China specializing in teaching and learning Chinese as a foreign language, and the most prestigious Chinese brand in this field. Over the past three decades, Sinolingua has published a wide range of influential publications on a rigorous scientific and methodological basis for teaching and learning Chinese as a foreign language. In addition to the official meeting, Irina Chudnova met with KIU students and told them about her poetic work, as well as about the peculiarities of the Chinese nation.

On March 31, 2025, Asia Timiryasova, Rector of Kazan Innovative University, paid a return visit to the office of Sinolingua Publishing House in Beijing. During the meeting, they discussed the current situation with the books supply for teaching Chinese as a foreign language in Russia, and outlined ways of joint cooperation.