Many people are interested in learning Mandarin Chinese for business purposes. When you start learning Chinese as beginners, you will learn mostly general vocabularies for daily conversations, not necessarily for business contexts. There are about 2000-3000 Chinese vocabularies to learn to be able to communicate proficiently in Chinese. If you want to be able to speak at a professional level within your industry, you will need to add additional 500 industry specific vocabularies to your vocabulary bank. Even as a beginner learner, it is always useful to learn a language using materials that are relevant to your interest.

Here is a list of 50 essential business Chinese vocabularies for you to master for a start: