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Abstract: This paper tries to find out whether online contacts with foreign partners from the United States and Algeria help Chinese college students improve their cross-cultural communicative competence in the culturally globalized world. There were altogether 12 contacts, with 6 ones for each country and each session lasted 50 minutes. In order to fully understand the effectiveness of contacts in improving students’ communication skills, the researchers collected data using T. Goldstein Cross-Cultural Communicative Competence Survey (CCCCS), used registers documented by both students and the researchers, and practiced classroom observations by the researchers during the session. The results from Paired Samples Test and text analysis indicated that after the contacts the students’ communicative competence was enhanced in the sphere of motivation to learn about cultural differences and in communication/listening skills. In the future study, researchers might use more validated surveys and examine effects of contacts with people from different countries.