Entity Type: Domestic School

The Philippine Cultural College (菲律賓僑中學院; PCC), known informally as Qiaozhong (僑中), is a Chinese Filipino educational institution founded on June 27, 1923 — making it the oldest Chinese Filipino secondary school in the Philippines. It was established under the leadership of Chen Yinglai (陳迎來), then-chairman of the Philippine Chinese Education Association (菲律賓華僑教育會), originally under the name Philippine Overseas Chinese Middle School (菲律賓華僑中學). The school survived Japanese occupation during World War II, reopening in May 1945, and has since expanded into a comprehensive institution offering kindergarten through university-level education across three campuses: a main campus in Manila, a branch campus in Caloocan, and a university campus in Quezon City. In 1976, under Philippine government education reforms requiring the “Filipinization” of Chinese schools, it was renamed Philippine Cultural High School before adopting its current name in 1988. In 2009, the school was designated a “Model Overseas Chinese Education School” (華文教育示範學校) by China’s State Council Overseas Chinese Affairs Office — a body that has since 2018 functioned as an external name of the CCP’s United Front Work Department. The college describes its mission as cultivating students who are “proud of their ancestral traditional culture” (以祖先傳統文化為傲) and prepared to contribute to both the Philippines and China.