The international education reform, the actual needs of social life and physical and mental development of the educated
are the three basic factors that restrain the direction of
the Chinese language teaching reform in China; yet, the current reform of the basic educational curriculums is the direct restraining factor. There are eight major points in the development of the Chinese language
Teaching reform: 1. The objective of the Chinese language teaching will be set on the training of the basic skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing, and training of the students' basic quality, especially their humane quality; 2. The nationalization of the Chinese language teaching will be the main part of the reform; 3. The combination of teachers' guidance and the students' “initiative, cooperation and research" will become the major teaching method; 4. The practical comprehensive study will become an important from of the Chinese language teaching; 5. More attention will be paid to the training of the students' ability of communication; 6. The course books taking the subject matter as the center will be replaced by the course books taking the learners' study and development as the center; 7. The modernized teaching means will be applied to the Chinese language teaching, thus pushing forward the development of teaching contents , teaching forms and teaching method; 8. Deepening of the reform of assessment to bring the educational , diagnostic and distinguishing functions into full play.