“Step into Practice: Chinese for Economics Series” serves as a bridge for international students to switch from basic Chinese learning to business and finance majors, and also a good medium for advanced students of Chinese and foreign practitioners to further improve their comprehensive Chinese application ability according to their actual work needs.

This series consists of 7 books: Chinese for Commerce: Comprehensive Course (1 & 2), Chinese for Finance: Comprehensive Course (1 & 2), Chinese for Commerce: Listening and Speaking, Chinese for Commerce: Writing and Chinese for Commerce: Culture, covering common topics in the fields of business and finance.

The textbook strives to make the top-level goal of “integrating knowledge, ability and quality” concrete and put into practice, and make the outline project, teaching content and style design reflect the training requirements of multiple knowledge abilities and quality indicators. In terms of knowledge, this book emphasizes business Chinese and economic and trade expertise, while in terms of ability, emphasis is placed on business Chinese listening, speaking, reading and writing, comprehensive ability to use Chinese to deal with business issues and cross-cultural communication ability. In addition, it also helps to cultivate teamwork spirit and international vision.

The Chinese for Commerce: Listening and Speaking Course in the series belongs to the Chinese language teaching materials for the training of specialized skills (listening and speaking) for special purposes (commerce). The book consists of 10 sections, each of which is centered  on a single topic, covering common business communication activities such as socio-economic, commercial and financial affairs, and trade transactions. The content of each section is carefully designed and combined in terms of topic design, text writing and ability cultivation, accompanying with the Chinese for Commerce: Comprehensive Course. With the overall idea of “Understanding and Analyzing - Classifying and Summarizing - Free Expressing”, the book assists students in learning commerce Chinese, forming business thinking patterns and improving business communication skills through the presentation of real cases and the simulation of real-life scenarios.