Excel in Chinese: Better Chinese, Better Business, written by teachers in the Teaching and

Resources Exploitation Base of International Business Chinese (Shanghai), Shanghai University

of Finance and Economics, is mainly for Chinese learners in business training programmes

and focuses on the comprehensive study of listening, speaking, reading and writing. Each

lesson provides plenty of business settings centering on a relevant topic, which helps

students acquire expressions in certain situations. It covers expressions from daily life, social

communication and cultural exchanges relevant to business situations, commercial activities

and economic subjects. Each volume has a different emphasis. The two texts in each lesson

focus on the difference between written and oral Chinese. Moreover, the two texts introduce

business knowledge by offering related business cases, which is a popular teaching method

of foreign language teaching for specific purposes.

There are five volumes in this series. Each volume contains five units and each unit contains

two lessons. Each lesson consists of two texts, which focus on the same business topic,

aiming to enrich learners’ vocabulary and improve their ability to communicate on certain

topics. Generally speaking, the first text requires intensive explanation and exercises in the

class, while the second one can be used to integrate classroom teaching and self-study.