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".

The series includes the textbooks for six popular majors such as logistics management, automotive service engineering technology, e-commerce, mechatronics, computer networking, and hotel management, with each major consisting of the textbooks at the elementary, intermediate and advanced levels. Each volume contains 10 units, with each unit consisting of modules such as “Phonics/Chinese Character, Texts, Communicative Phrases, Practical Training, Summary”

This volume is the Chinese + Mechatronics (Intermediate).

The New Silk Road “Chinese + Vocational Skills” Series Writing Committee is composed of experts from the Centre for Language Education and Cooperation of the Ministry of Education and the Nanjing Vocational University of Industry Technology. The writing committee has realized the organic integration of “Chinese + Vocational Skills” from the perspective of international Chinese language teaching materials and vocational characteristics. Meanwhile, it has realized that Chinese language teaching provides guarantee for vocational education and vocational education injects energy into Chinese language education, which are complementary to each other. On the basis of vocational competence standards, the construction of vocational Chinese language competence can be promoted in combination with the needs of enterprises, which can solve the direct needs of local enterprises in the fastest way, build a feasible language development environment that meets the interests of all parties, and max