The peculiarities of the system of teaching Chinese students Russian as a foreign language are caused by features of Chinese. The article substantiates the system of methods and approaches facilitating efficient acquisition of a foreign language and the culture of its speakers; the author believes that the systemic approach (allowing appropriation of linguistic norms as a system at deferent levels) and the process-focused approach (allowing formation of a communicative field in different variants of work with the text) are the leading ones. The author also considers certain didactic techniques which make it possible to reach a high level of formation of a foreign language communicative competence, for example, the use of tongue twisters as didactic means. The author believes that the main accent in teaching Chinese students Russian and the standard of speech should focus on vocabulary enrichment, grammatical and syntactic constructions typical of certain situations, and also development of speech culture and speech etiquette. The author offers a plan of one lesson as an example of such work.