Chinese for Science and Engineering is designed for first-year overseas undergraduate students studying in China or professional Chinese learners at the advanced stage of pre-university education, and it is a special textbook for pre-university education of overseas students sponsored by Chinese government scholarship.

The textbook consists of 15 chapters and 60 texts. Each chapter contains six sections: warm-up, word learning, reading, listening and speaking, ability expansion, and word advancement. The reading section includes one article each of intensive reading, through-reading and skimming, and the listening and speaking section includes one article.

Du Xiuping is the vice dean, professor and doctoral director of the School of International Education of Tianjin University, and the leader of the cross-cultural education discipline of the School. He is mainly engaged in research in the fields of learning science, Chinese international education and intercultural education. He serves as the director of the Steering Committee of Pre-University Education Sponsored by Chinese Government Scholarship, the vice president of Tianjin Chinese International Education Research Association and other social part-time jobs. He has published more than 40 academic papers. The Research on Pre-University Foreigners Studying in China Sponsored by Chinese Government Scholarship, edited by him, won the second prize of the Fifteenth Social Science Outstanding Achievement Award of Tianjin, and the Illustrated Higher Education System of Each Country, edited by him, won the second prize of the Seventeenth Social Science Outstanding Achievement Award of Tianjin.

Yin Xiaojing is the head of the Department of Chinese Language Education at the School of International Education of Tianjin University, a postgraduate supervisor and a full-time teacher of Chinese as a foreign language. Since 2001, she has been engaged in teaching and researching Chinese as a foreign language, and has presided over and participated in a number of research projects related to teaching. She has co-edited four Chinese as a Foreign Language textbooks and one cultural textbook. She is also an expert in the construction of the online series of courses of “China Panorama”. Her English course “Chinese Culture” for international students was awarded the title of “Tianjin Brand Course of English Teaching for Overseas Chinese Students”. Moreover, she is the judge of the Third, Fourth and Fifth National Postgraduate Chinese Education Microcourse Competition.

This book is a special textbook for pre-university education of overseas students sponsored by Chinese government scholarship, and it is one of the series of Starting Line—A Series of “Chinese +” Textbooks, which has the following features:

(1) Bridged by vocabulary. This book is in line with the “Standard for Pre-University Education in China” and “Chinese Proficiency Grading Standards for International Chinese Language Education”, and it compiles basic vocabulary and professional vocabulary of science and engineering Chinese, and absorbs a large number of vocabulary of science and engineering Chinese in the pre-university course, vocabulary of mathematics, physics and chemistry in the pre-university course, and commonly used scientific and technological words in the classroom, so as to assist the students in the transition from pre-university education to undergraduate education.

(2) Aiming at improving comprehensive language application skills. With reading as the main line, listening texts are added, and exercises such as listening comprehension and writing in scientific and engineering language styles are designed in a gradual manner, so as to gradually cultivate students’ ability to independently read science and engineering textbooks and understand science and engineering courses.

(3) Equipped with rich teaching resources. All chapters are equipped with PPT courseware, exercises and micro-lesson videos, and online supplementary corpus of science and engineering Chinese is provided.

(4) Following the contemporary and interesting principles. With popular science articles as the main line and scientific and technological topics as the outline, this book combines traditional culture with the achievements of contemporary courseware, and highlights the concept of combining language, culture, and scientific and engineering knowledge.

It is suggested that students who have reached the Level 2 of Chinese for Science and Engineering of the Standards for Pre-University Education in China can study the whole content in 64 hours, and students who have reached the Level 3 of that can study the whole content in 48 hours. Institutions can also determine the number of teaching hours according to the actual situation of students’ level and curriculum settings, and it is recommended that the teaching hours of each chapter should be limited to 6 hours.