The New Silk Road "Chinese + Vocational Skills" is a series of Chinese textbooks for specialized and vocational purposes that combine professional and vocational technologies with Chinese as a second language. The textbooks are developed with a view of meeting the basic communication needs of learners in general Chinese environment, and their professional learning needs and workplace demands as well.
This series adopts a Chinese teaching and textbook compilation model combining special language skills and vocational skills training. Starting from the basic phonetic knowledge learning and job cognition at the elementary level, this series integrates “Chinese + Vocational Skills” into the working scene dialogues, breaking down the job into various tasks, solving lexical cognition problems by means of picture cognition, solving the problem of the mismatch between learners’ mastery of Chinese vocabulary and professional skills by means of displaying videos, stressing the practicality of skills, and focusing on "learning by doing".