"Be a civilized person, speak Mandarin, and write standardized characters" handwritten newspaper materials and pictures

Chinese is the main language in our country, the most spoken language in the world, and one of the most developed languages ??in the world. Language is a tool for communication, as well as a tool for social struggle and development. At present, the Chinese language is serving the great cause of socialist construction carried out by our people. Learning Chinese well is of great significance to the development of our country's socialist cause.

Due to historical reasons, the development of Chinese has not yet reached the point of complete unity. Many seriously divergent dialects hinder people from different regions from communicating and cause many inconveniences in the cause of socialist construction. Certain inconsistencies and ungrammatical phenomena in language exist not only in spoken language but also in written language. There is considerable lexical and grammatical confusion in written language and even in publications. In the interests of the further development of our country's politics, economy, culture and national defense, these phenomena must be effectively eliminated.

The basis for the unification of the Chinese language already exists, which is Mandarin with Beijing pronunciation as the standard pronunciation, Northern dialect as the basic dialect, and model modern vernacular works as the grammatical standard. Promoting this kind of Mandarin in the cultural and educational system and in all aspects of people's lives is the main method to promote the complete unification of the Chinese language. To this end, the State Council has instructed as follows:

(1) Starting from the autumn of 1956, Mandarin will be taught in Chinese classes in primary and secondary schools nationwide, except in minority areas. By 1960, students in third grade and above in primary schools, middle schools and normal schools should basically be able to speak Mandarin. Teachers in all subjects in primary schools and normal schools should all teach in Mandarin. Teachers in middle schools and secondary vocational schools should also basically be able to speak Mandarin. Teaching in Mandarin. Putonghua content should also be added to the Chinese language teaching in colleges and universities. Students about to graduate from secondary schools and colleges, as well as young teachers and teaching assistants in colleges and universities, if they still cannot speak Mandarin, should take short-term tutoring to facilitate their work. The Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Higher Education should respectively formulate special plans to vigorously strengthen Chinese language teaching in schools at all levels and promote the standardization of Chinese language, and submit them to the State Council for approval and implementation.