In 1997, Shanghai's Hongkou District established a leadership committee aimed at promoting the use of Zhang's method. In the same year, the Shanghai Board of Education also approved the establishment of a graduate institute for the study of Zhang's method of foreign language pedagogy.
一九九七年，上海虹口區成立「推廣張法領導小組」，上海市教委會批准成立「張思中外語教學法研究所」。