Аннотация:This article describes the process of teaching Chinese at the Higher School of Translation and Interpreting (the faculty of Lomonosov Moscow State University). The authors pay attention to the special features of teaching Chinese while training professional translators and interpreters. In this paper the process of training Chinese-Russian translators is described in detail: how teachers include the elements of translation at the beginning of studying Chinese and how they develop translating skills further in their senior years.