1 Introduction

The importance of telling China's story well and spreading China's voice was emphasized in the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. It is believed that this is the key to showcasing China's image, enhancing international understanding, strengthening cultural confidence, and promoting the common values of all mankind. College students should become an important force in spreading the voice of China. College English teaching should integrate Xi Jinping's Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, guide students to understand contemporary China, and enhance their cross-cultural communication and international communication abilities. The Comprehensive Course of Understanding Contemporary Chinese College English aims to guide students to explore global issues, understand the world, and tell the story of contemporary China. This article will explore the content and methods of storytelling.

What kind of Chinese stories are told

Emphasis was placed on the importance of enabling college students to understand contemporary China, believing that this is not only about understanding China's history, culture, and current development status, but also helping them establish a comprehensive, profound, and rational cognitive framework to grasp China's future development direction and assume social responsibility in the context of globalization. National consciousness is regarded as the core of national spirit, including three dimensions: national cognition, national identity, and national expectations. It describes the face of contemporary China from six dimensions: politics, economy, society, culture, ecology, and international, emphasizing China's achievements and development directions in various fields. At the same time, the chapter discusses the role of the "Tutorial" in foreign language teaching. By setting up two sections, Understanding China and Exploring the World, it aims to help students understand both China and the world, and broaden their horizons. The "Tutorial" guides students to enhance their understanding and recognition of Chinese theory and path through rich cases and data, while cultivating an open, inclusive, communicative, and mutually beneficial civilization view.

How to tell Chinese stories well

We discussed how to tell Chinese stories well and emphasized the importance of cross-cultural communication skills. Telling Chinese stories well requires language proficiency and cross-cultural communication skills, where language proficiency includes comprehension and output abilities, while cross-cultural communication skills include cross-cultural awareness and strategies. Cross cultural awareness involves understanding and respecting different cultural backgrounds, while strategic ability is related to effective communication. Three cross-cultural communication strategies have been proposed: emphasizing logic and emotion, macro and detail, and facts and methods, in order to enhance the persuasiveness, infectiousness, and dissemination of Chinese stories. The "Tutorial" uses the Understanding China section to design cross-cultural communication skills, combined with international communication cases, to enhance students' cross-cultural awareness and communication skills, making them real and vivid storytellers of Chinese stories. The tutorial also includes a Communicating with the World activity to guide students in using cross-cultural communication skills, enhance their comprehensive ability to communicate with the world, and help build a Chinese discourse and narrative system.

4 Conclusion

The importance of the "three advances" work in university foreign language education was emphasized, which is a positive response to the development needs of the Party and the country. The Comprehensive Course of Understanding Contemporary Chinese College English aims to guide students to explore global issues in depth, and to understand the unique challenges and experiences of different countries in the process of modernization, cultural protection, and solving global problems through case analysis. This helps students better understand the world and effectively tell the story of China, achieving precise international dissemination.