The present course is prepared for those industrialists and businessmen who have never learned or have just begun learning basic Chinese that is not their mother tongue. This book aim at helping learners to acquire the 4-level ability described above. By completing this course they will have learned Chinese phonetics, basic Chinese grammar, over 200 commonly used sentence pattern, about 1200 words and 500 Chinese characters. Learners may make an overall plan of their own, or decide what stage of the three that they are going to reach.