The present study presents the problem of using the teaching potential of the National Corpus of the Russian language in teaching Chinese philology students. The article positions work with the NCRA as an innovative technology in the teaching of RCT, a review of scientific sources is conducted for the expediency of using this tool in teaching Chinese philology students. The scientific article attempts to demonstrate the use of corpus techniques in the process of studying a literary work or a cycle of works by foreign students in order to increase the interest of students, as well as to stimulate their independent research activities, the formation of a scientific worldview and methodology of scientific thinking. On the basis of the teaching potential of the National Corpus of the Russian Language, a fragment of a research work on the study of Pushkin's love lyrics has been developed.