“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.

Zhai Yijiang（Editor-in-Chief ） is an associate professor and Master candidates’ supervisor of the School of Humanities at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and was the Chinese director of the Confucius Institute at Heidelberg University in Germany. His main research focuses on teaching Chinese to speakers of other languages and comparative Chinese characterology. He has published textbooks such as the A 21st Century Course of Chinese as a Foreign Language.

Duan Mo (Deputy Editor-in-Chief) is a PhD in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, and teacher at the School of Humanities, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. She has been teaching business Chinese courses for a long time and has won the second prize of school-level teaching competition and the first prize of college-level teaching competition. She has presided over four school-level teaching and research projects and one school-level teaching material project, and has published many papers on business Chinese teaching and task-based teaching.

As the special skills teaching material of “Step into Practice: Chinese for Economics Series”, Chinese for Commerce: Listening and Speaking Course continues the teaching objective of “ability cultivation as the core”, and is used in conjunction with Chinese for Commerce: Comprehensive Course and Chinese for Commerce: Writing in terms of topic setting, content arrangement, and ability point design and training, so as to achieve the goal of “integrating knowledge, ability and quality”.

This book can be used as a general Chinese textbook for commerce majors studying in Chinese, and can be used in conjunction with other sub-volumes in the “Step into Practice: Chinese for Economics Series” (Chinese for Commerce: Comprehensive Course, Listening and Speaking Course, Writing Course).