Out of curiosity, how much mandarin/chinese would an angli Amerikkkan have to learn to get a chinese visa?

I am an Amerikkan weighing my options on where to flee to. China is an option and i was wondering how much mandarin to learn to get into the country, where I can continue my education in the language there (because the best place to learn a new language is a country that speaks it) if i should be fluent before i move there, that's fine too. i would do literally anything to leave this shithole. TIA comrades and good day.