The article is devoted to the study of relevant issues affecting the oral speech of Chinese students studying at Russian universities, identifying factors affecting oral speech and the assimilation of ethnocultural features by Chinese students to achieve innovations in the methodology. Therefore, this article sets a goal to find out the factors affecting the oral speech of Chinese students, and to conduct targeted training taking into account these factors. To achieve this goal, the following methods were used: the study of Russian and foreign theoretical materials, the survey method, data analysis, generalization of the results. The article presents the results of the survey of Chinese students conducted by the author and the study of the ethnocultural and ethnopsychological characteristics of Chinese students. In conclusion, the ways of further research into the design of the oral speech of the Russian language of Chinese students are presented.