Аннотация:Understanding the Chinese students specifics and the use of this knowledge in the educational process is one of the most important tasks of the Russian as a foreign language methodology today. This specificity is represented by a wide range of socio-cultural, methodological and linguistic issues. This article describes the segment of the problem, which is associated with the peculiarities of the Russian language learning in China. Knowledge of these features will help teachers to work with the Chinese audience.