Hello Tawala,
Surhurt's explanation is more than sufficient, but I am not sure you do read Chinese Hanzi that well to understand. I will explain it simply in English.
In Chinese language as you already know ,there are no tenses formed by the modification of the verb itself. It is always one form and tense without any alteration even in regard of the pronouns as well.
Tenses are detected by the context of the sentence and the other adverbials of time used to refer to the present ,past or future.
When you say " now , today, everyday" it will indicate the present tense.
If you used " yesterday , the day before, last month etc... " it will refer to the past tense. The same goes for " tomorrow, next week , in one year .." ,where the future tense is obviously denoted.
If an earlier event or year is mentioned,you will surely know the actions are past. If the speech is about things one wishes to do or plans to accomplish, the future tense is implicitly referred to.
There are words used to indicate the past tense such as "guo" and "le".
They are not always or necessarily used ,but they mean "already" ,which indicates the action is already done.
My explanation might not be sufficient ,but hopefully it gives you an idea about TENSES in Chinese .