diff --git a/spacy/zh/__init__.py b/spacy/zh/__init__.py
index 1847a7d8d..0f407dec6 100644
--- a/spacy/zh/__init__.py
+++ b/spacy/zh/__init__.py
@@ -8,4 +8,5 @@ class Chinese(Language):
     def make_doc(self, text):
         import jieba
         words = list(jieba.cut(text, cut_all=True))
+        words=[x for x in words if x]
         return Doc(self.vocab, words=words, spaces=[False]*len(words))