Developing Chinese (3rd Edition) is a set of systematic Chinese language teaching materials for adults that embodies the teaching concept of “development” and adopts the model of “integrating comprehensive language ability cultivation with specialized language skills training”, which can be divides into three levels (elementary, intermediate and advanced) and six series (comprehensive, speaking, listening, reading, writing and elementary reading and writing), with a total of 28 volumes.

Developing Chinese (3rd Edition) Intermediate Listening Course (I) is a listening textbook in the Developing Chinese series. It is suitable for learners who have completed Developing Chinese Elementary Listening Course (II) or equivalent elementary Chinese textbooks and have reached the entry-level of intermediate Chinese. The book contains 28 lessons, with each lesson consisting of three parts: Pre-task, While-task, and Post-task. The Pre-task section features a “Free Talk” segment to fully warm up learners and activate their background knowledge. The While-task section guides learners to understand the text through exercises that progress from easy to difficult. The Post-task section deepens the content and focuses on language forms, including discussions on in-class topics or after-class surveys, as well as consolidation exercises for the language knowledge learned in the lesson.
(2) The book design focuses on the process of text learning, language learning and comprehensive practice, exactly, the process of understanding the content of the text, learning and using the language points and comprehensively improving the language skills, which aims to gradually cultivate the learners' ability to communicate in Chinese and to successfully carry out cross-cultural communication.
(3) The teaching materials are comprehensive and useful, which helps to expand learners’ independent learning opportunities.
(4) The textbook highlights the teaching of Chinese language morphemes and builds a grammar teaching system for Chinese discourse from characters, sentences to discourses.

Li Quan, Editor-in-Chief, is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Chinese Studies and Cultural Exchange, Renmin University of China. Professor Li is also a member of the National Steering Committee for Postgraduate Education of International Chinese Language Education, vice president of the Beijing Language Association, executive director of the International Society for Chinese Language Teaching, and editorial board member of various journals such as Chinese Teaching in the World and Applied Linguistics.