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Compiled with meticulous care in accordance with the Chinese Proficiency Grading Standards for International Chinese Language Education, this textbook is designed for Chinese news reading courses at the advanced stage (Levels 7-9) of international Chinese language education. It is structured into 10 theme-based units, covering a wide range of fields including current politics, economy, culture, and environmental protection. Each lesson consists of multiple sections such as “Warm-up Topics”, “Text”, “Vocabulary Learning”, “Notes”, “Exercises”, “Extended Reading”, and “Journalism Knowledge Window”. The articles for the main texts and extended reading are selected from publicly published and translated domestic and foreign news publications, films, television programs, and online materials in recent years, and some articles have been appropriately abridged or revised to meet teaching needs. The exercises emphasize pertinence and effectiveness, adopting various forms such as selecting the correct explanation of underlined words in sentences, judging true or false, choosing the correct answer, and answering questions, so as to comprehensively test learners’ comprehension abilities. The professional journalism knowledge focuses on popularizing basic knowledge, aiming to cultivate learners’ news sensitivity and enhance their reading comprehension skills.

About the Author
Xia Kexin, PhD, is a faculty member at the School of International Chinese Studies, Beijing Language and Culture University. She graduated from Kansai University in Japan with a major in Mass Communication. With years of in-depth experience in International Chinese Language Education, she specializes in journalistic language and news reading instruction. She has successively gone to Japan, South Korea and other countries to train local teachers and teach, and has published numerous papers in related fields.

Editorial Review
This textbook focuses on exploring news value, clarifying news structure, selecting novel and rich materials, and emphasizing the grasp of timeliness. Its innovative feature lies in the organic integration of the professional characteristics of journalism with article reading, which effectively addresses the shortcomings of traditional news reading textbooks in international Chinese language education, such as overemphasizing reading while neglecting journalism, and lacking news timeliness, thus enhancing the textbook’s practicality. Teachers can guide Chinese language learners to gradually develop news sensitivity, strengthen reading intuition, and comprehensively improve their Chinese language proficiency on the basis of mastering professional journalism knowledge.

Suggestion
This book can be used as a textbook for Chinese news reading courses at the advanced stage (Levels 7-9) of international Chinese language education. It is recommended that 6 class hours be allocated to each topic, with 4 hours for the main texts and 2 hours for extended reading. Teachers delivering the course can flexibly reduce or add content in the extended reading section based on the actual situation of classroom teaching, thereby further enhancing the timeliness of the course.