Objective To examine the properties of attention engagement, phonology processing, phonetic radical processing of Chinese dyslexic children on two rapid-serial-visual presentation （RSVP） tasks.  Methods Twenty-five Chinese primary school children with developmental dyslexia were selected  and matched with 25 chronological-age children. Performances of children in two RSVP tasks were measured.  Results The research showed that Chinese dyslexic children had difficulty in RSVP processing in comparison to controls.  Conclusion The study found the performance of Chinese dyslexic children in Chinese phonology decoding was impaired and they overly relied on phonetic radical in phonological decision, but there was no similar deficit of attentional engagement to their Western counterparts.