Both the Chinese group in the Communist University of the Toilers of the East and Moscow Sun Yat-sen Universityattached great importance to the speaking skills of their trainees. Both introduced speech training courses and speechpractices. The CPC, at its early days, dispatched students to the Soviet Russia to receive training, who became excellentpublic speakers and mobilizers in late days. Some factors contributed to the speaking training of the Chinese students inSoviet Russia, including the importance the Intercom attached to speech training, the influence of the Soviet Russianpolitical culture, and demonstration of such role-models like leaders of Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the schoolteachers. It turned out that speech training was instrumental in improving the overall qualification of the trainees, buildingcoherent party organizations and creating a set of criteria for selecting cadres. Public speech skill training is generallyconstrained by factors like the talent, personality and gender of the trainees. But it turned out that the training wassomewhat effective in breaking some of these constraints. The Chinese trainees later played a significant role in the CPC’s publicity work by taking advantage of their speech skills and mobilization tactics gained from the Soviet Russia, after theyreturned to China.