<正>It is not difficult to imagine that Italian language,as other European languages during the ages was able to absorb some Chinese words,and the Chinese language,on the other way,was able to acquire words and expressions from Italian as from other European languages,especially English.It is less known that Latin and Italian languages can be held responsible for the introduction into Chinese of entire groups of lexical items and,moreover,that Italian missionaries greatly contributed to the development of modern Chinese linguistics studies,in the field of phonology,lexicography and grammatical studies.