This article examines approaches to teaching dance to college students in the People's Republic of China. In the conditions of modern times cultural traditions of national Chinese classical dance are not to be transformed, they develop according to the new trends, which preserves ethnic roots of Chinese dance art, and professional choreographic training becomes more universal and ready to the challenges of the global educational market and adapted to the trends of cultural integration in choreography. The study of the pedagogical component of the national choreographic traditions of China plays an important role in the process of formation of the theory and history of pedagogy, as it contributes to the reconstruction of authentic conditions and methods of skill transfer, development of choreographic art in the context of the transfer of experience of artistic creation.