Developing Chinese (3^rd Edition) is a set of systematic Chinese language teaching materials for adults that embodies the teaching concept of “development” and adopts the model of “integrating comprehensive language ability cultivation with specialized language skills training”, which can be divides into three levels (elementary, intermediate and advanced) and six series (comprehensive, speaking, listening, reading, writing and elementary reading and writing), with a total of 28 volumes.

Developing Chinese (3^rd Edition) Intermediate Comprehensive Course (I) is a comprehensive textbook of the Developing Chinese series, which is applicable for learners who have learned Developing Chinese Elementary Comprehensive Course (II) or elementary Chinese textbooks of comparable level, and are at intermediate level of Chinese Learning. The textbook consists of 14 lessons, each of which consists of four parts, word study, text introduction, comprehensive notes and comprehensive exercises. The textbook is rich in content with strong practicality and interest, the design is simple and practical, which makes it easy to teach and learn, and the content is resourceful, which expands the opportunities for learners to learn independently. Furthermore, the textbook focuses on cultivating learners’ ability to understand the rationale for the composition of Chinese characters and phrases.

Li Quan, Editor-in-Chief, is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Chinese Studies and Cultural Exchange, Renmin University of China. Professor Li is also a member of the National Steering Committee for Postgraduate Education of International Chinese Language Education, vice president of the Beijing Language Association, executive director of the International Society for Chinese Language Teaching, and editorial board member of various journals such as Chinese Teaching in the World and Applied Linguistics.

(1) The text genres are various, the themes are close to contemporary life, and the choice of topics is universal. Meanwhile, the content involves Chinese culture and national conditions, while taking into account the contrast between Chinese and foreign cultures.

(2) The book design focuses on the process of text learning, language learning and comprehensive practice, exactly, the process of understanding the content of the text, learning and using the language points and comprehensively improving the language skills, which aims to gradually cultivate the learners’ ability to communicate in Chinese and to successfully carry out cross-cultural communication.

(3) The teaching materials are comprehensive and useful, which helps to expand learners’ independent learning opportunities.

(4) The textbook highlights the teaching of Chinese language morphemes and builds a grammar teaching system for Chinese discourse from characters, sentences to discourses.

The textbook consists of 14 lessons in total, and each lesson is suggested to finish in 6 class hours.