Since the founding of the PRC, teaching writing in Chinese in senior high schools has witnessed successive changes to meet the surging tides of the times. There have been setbacks, confusions, detours until a new direction was gradually found. The changes were made from paying attention to the basic, political and practical nature of students’ writing to paying equal attention to the political and realistic nature of students’ writing, and then from focusing on the scientific, standard and phased aspects of students’ writing to on the humanistic, speculative and practical aspects of students’ writing. At the same time, however, there are still some problems, such as writing topics and topic materials are divorced from students’ cognition, adult feelings were imposed on students, thus lacking true feelings from the students, and the fake, big and empty words in students’ composition. At present, it is necessary to integrate writing into all aspects of the classroom teaching, encourage students to express and write freely, implement multiple evaluation methods, encourage students’ selfevaluation and mutual evaluation, and constantly improve the professional competency of teachers of the Chinese language in high schools. Only in this way can students’ writing competency and accomplishments be better improved.