Abstract: With the deepening of reform and opening-up, the demand for more applied foreign language graduates is ever growing. In order to provide for social needs and further deepen the reform of language teaching, the College of Applied Foreign Languages of Heilongjiang University has come up with a newly proposed construct of “A Genre-based System for the Construction of Discursive Competence of Business English” and has developed “The Specifications for the Business English Undergraduate Program” based on the core configuration of “Business English Competence of Discursive Practice.”