Su Yingxia is Dean and Professor of the College of Intensive Chinese Training, Beijing Language and Culture University. She won the second prize in the Essential Teaching Skills Competition in the Literature and History Group for Young Teachers in Beijing, and got the title of "Beijing Language and Culture University Prominent Teacher". Her research areas include teaching Chinese vocabulary and grammar to non-native speakers and the compilation of Chinese textbooks. 

Features of the textbook:

(1) Clear positioning and distinctive characteristics. This textbook takes reading skills training as the core, attaches importance to the cultivation of reading comprehension skills, and basically does not design language output exercises such as oral expressions.

(2) Abundant materials for learning and practicing. The first and second volumes of the textbooks are the beginning stage of reading, which focus on the learning of characters and the accumulation of vocabulary, supplemented by sentence and paragraph reading, so as to lay a foundation for further reading training. Starting from Volume 3, each lesson has three major sections: “Knowledge Bank”, “Skills Training” and “Reading Practice”, and provides the corresponding reading materials for close reading, skimming and checking, which can fully meet the needs of language knowledge accumulation, reading skills training and reading practice for students to improve their Chinese reading ability.

(3) Diverse genres and themes. In order to make learners familiar with Chinese reading materials of different genres and themes, this textbook pays attention to the diversification in the selection of text genres and themes. The genre includes narration, practical writing, and argumentative writing and so on. The themes involve learning, life, nature, science and technology, society and culture and so on. In the "Live Reading" section, it also provides students with signboards, posters, notes, online posts and other text materials that can be seen everywhere in daily life.

(4) Clear training hierarchy. The style design of the textbook attaches importance to the scientificity and hierarchy of skills training, and develops progressively from knowledge to skill and then to practice. Reading guide is designed in the text part, and targeted reading comprehension exercises are designed for each step, which are convenient for teachers and students to use.

It is for both classroom use and self teaching. The recommended teaching time for each lesson is 2-4 class hours. This volume aims to develop students’ interest in reading and train their reading skills. It starts with the strokes of Chinese characters, concentrates on studying characters and enlarges vocabulary through the connection of semantic components, and then consolidates new words by reading sentences and paragraphs.