The concept of higher education in the new era is based on the educational objective of promoting virtue and rearing of individuals. Being one of the general education subjects, College Chinese has two-fold nature of cultural heritage and personality development. Through the research framework of college Chinese classroom teaching, this paper elucidates the value of the core integration of humanistic spirit cultivation and practical teaching, discusses some existing teaching issues like bias concepts, inflexibility of contents, and stereotypical formats, and gives specific strategies of integration in four areas of teaching philosophy, curriculum content, pedagogical design, and assessment system. What is intended is to eliminate the disconnect between humanistic cultivation and practice, boost the humanistic literacy of students, improve their command of language, and create a contemporary college Chinese teaching system of mutual empowerment.