Popularize Mandarin, the world is one family

Notice of the Ministry of Education and other departments on the launch of the Ninth National Mandarin Promotion Week

Education Departments (Education Committees), Party Committee Propaganda Departments, and Personnel Departments (Bureaus) of all provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government ), Department of Culture (Bureau), Radio, Film and Television Bureau, Language Committee, Youth League Committee, all military regions, all services and arms, all headquarters, Academy of Military Science, National Defense University, National University of Defense Science and Technology, Political Department of the Armed Police Force, Education Bureau of Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, Personnel Bureau, Cultural Bureau, Radio, Film and Television Bureau, Language Committee:

With the approval of the State Council, the third week of September every year is the National Promotion Week for Putonghua (hereinafter referred to as Promotion Week). As one of the basic measures to promote Mandarin, the popularization week has had a wide range of social impacts. It promotes the "Law of the People's Republic of China on the National Standard Spoken and Written Language", promotes the whole society to establish awareness of language norms, and promotes language work. Played an important role in the in-depth development.

September 10th to 16th, 2006 is the 9th National Promotion Week. In order to carry out the activities of this popularization week, the relevant matters are now notified as follows:

1. Guiding ideology: Guided by the Scientific Outlook on Development, comprehensively publicize the "National Common Spoken and Written Language Law" to further enhance the awareness of all citizens We should raise awareness of language norms, legal awareness and participation in promoting Mandarin, accelerate the promotion and popularization of Mandarin in the whole society, and create a good language environment for building a harmonious socialist society and building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way.

2. Publicity theme: "Putonghua - fifty years of promotion, popularization in the new century." In conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the State Council's "Resolution on the Announcement of the "Chinese Character Simplification Plan" and the "Instructions on the Promotion of Mandarin" and the 5th anniversary of the implementation of the "National Standard Spoken and Written Language Law", we will carefully plan and organize relevant publicity to expand the standardization of Mandarin. The influence of Chinese characters and the social awareness of the National Standard Spoken and Written Language Law. All regions and departments can review and summarize the historical achievements and experiences in the promotion of Mandarin and language standardization in the past 50 years in light of actual conditions, and at the same time focus on exploring how to further promote Mandarin under the new situation, so as to provide a comprehensive, coordinated and sustainable economy and society. Continuous development of services.

3. It is necessary to accurately grasp and comprehensively publicize the country’s laws, regulations, guidelines, policies and relevant standards for the promotion of Mandarin, pay attention to the art of publicity, and make all members of society realize that the promotion of Mandarin is important for promoting economic development and improving their own quality. , maintain national unity and enhance the cohesion of the Chinese nation, encourage them to study hard and consciously use Mandarin on necessary occasions, and establish new language concepts to adapt to the needs of modern society. At the same time, the people must understand that the promotion of Mandarin does not mean the elimination of dialects. Dialects have their own space for use within the scope of the law. Putonghua and dialects each perform their own duties in social life and develop together to build a harmonious society. needs.

4. All regions and departments must establish brand awareness and innovation awareness. Based on summarizing the experience of past activities, adapt to the development of the times and social needs, constantly enrich publicity methods, expand publicity areas, launch publicity highlights, and strive to Make Promotion Week a language-related festival that the general public pays active attention to, enjoys, and benefits from, and ensure the sustainable development of Promotion Week activities. We can continue to adhere to the past effective forms of activities such as square publicity, symposiums, ancient poems, street publicity and consultation, knowledge competitions, basic skills competitions, essay collection activities, collection of promotional materials, theatrical performances, language work achievement exhibitions, etc., and at the same time give full play to broadcasting The role of media such as radio, television, newspapers, periodicals, Internet, and mobile phone text messages should be strengthened to create a good public opinion atmosphere and social environment. We should focus on giving full play to the enthusiasm and creativity of experts, scholars, language societies, and Mandarin promotion volunteers, and strive for extensive social support to make the Promotion Week activities more relevant to life and enhance the sense of fashion, interactivity, and affinity. Language and writing departments at all levels should solicit opinions from publicity, education, personnel, culture, radio and television, the National Youth League, Young Pioneers and other departments, organizations and major public service industries, formulate promotion week activity plans, and submit them to local promotion It shall be approved and coordinated by the Puzhou leading group or the comprehensive department of the people's government.

All relevant departments should provide necessary manpower, material resources, financial guarantees and convenient conditions for the promotion week activities, strive for social support and sponsorship, and jointly do a good job in promoting Mandarin.

5. Publicity activities to promote Mandarin must continue to extend and expand to rural areas, remote areas and ethnic areas to meet the needs of building a new socialist countryside. At present, the popularity of Mandarin in rural areas is not high, and farmers' awareness of language norms is not strong, which is detrimental to the development of market economy and the transfer of surplus labor in rural areas, and restricts the wealth and development of farmers. We must regard helping farmers master the national common language as an important link in coordinating urban and rural economic and social development and promoting rural urbanization. We must increase investment in work and provide relevant services to improve farmers' language abilities and optimize the rural language environment. Language committees at all levels and relevant industry departments must proceed from reality and advance this work in accordance with local conditions. They must use their brains on "using cities to lead rural areas", use various educational resources and social forces, and adopt flexible methods to support rural and ethnic minority areas. Teachers and the masses, as well as migrant workers in cities, etc., provide Mandarin training and consulting services, organize volunteers to send teachers to the countryside, or promote Mandarin-based convenience services, so that the masses can benefit from them.

6. Schools should give full play to their basic role in popularizing Mandarin. It is necessary to combine the popularization week activities with the language standardization model school creation activities to further increase the popularity of Mandarin on campus. Speech competitions, basic teaching skills competitions and other activities can be widely carried out among teachers to improve teachers’ awareness of language norms and Mandarin teaching level. Every school in urban and rural areas should carry out publicity activities during the promotion week. Primary and secondary schools should carry out activities such as flag-raising ceremonies, class meetings, team meetings, group meetings, textbook drama performances, Mandarin competitions, etc. with the theme of popularizing Mandarin. Urban and rural schools can carry out activities based on actual conditions. Cooperation and networking activities need to be carried out, and language departments at all levels should especially strengthen support and guidance for rural primary and secondary school promotion week activities. Colleges and universities should carry out recitations, speeches, debates and other activities that are suitable for the characteristics of college students. Schools with conditions can organize college student volunteers to carry out "popularization of rural areas" activities, or provide nearby language training services for rural migrant workers in cities. The *** Youth League and Young Pioneers organizations at all levels should take experiential education as the basic approach, carry out activities such as "passing on the national spirit from generation to generation" and competing for the "Mandarin Chapter", and play an active role in promoting Mandarin. Encourage schools to carry out publicity activities for society and communities.

7. All departments and systems must pay attention to and carry out promotion week activities. The publicity department should include the promotion week activities in the third quarter publicity plan, and mobilize public media such as newspapers, radio, television, and the Internet to carry out various forms of promotion of Mandarin; radio stations and TV stations should do a good job in promotion week news Report, in conjunction with the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the release of the "Resolution on the Announcement of the "Chinese Character Simplification Plan" and the Instructions on the Promotion of Mandarin, actively produce and broadcast special programs and public service announcements; the personnel department should increase the intensity of Mandarin training for civil servants and encourage civil servants to Actively participate in the promotion of Mandarin publicity activities and play an exemplary role; the spiritual civilization construction department should incorporate the promotion of Mandarin publicity into urban and community civilization construction publicity and education; the cultural department should integrate the promotion of Mandarin publicity into mass cultural activities and community cultural construction, especially socialist In the construction of new rural culture; the Youth League Department of the Communist Party of China should carry out volunteer service activities to promote Mandarin among young people, recruit and organize popularization volunteers to go deep into communities, factories, mines, rural areas and other places to provide consultation, support education and other services; the People's Liberation Army and the Armed Police Force should Focus on Mandarin training for soldiers who enlist from rural areas and dialect areas.

8. The promotion week activities should focus on the connection and examples with the daily promotion of Mandarin and other regular work of language and writing. The activity time does not need to be strictly limited to the third week of September, and can be flexibly adjusted according to the actual situation. The education department can combine it with Teachers' Day activities, and other departments can also combine it with the industry's publicity activities, taking advantage of each other's strength to further expand the publicity momentum and extend the publicity timeliness. Provincial-level language and writing departments should strengthen macro-guidance, fully mobilize and encourage the enthusiasm and creativity of grassroots units, and summarize and promote good models and experiences in local promotion week activities.

9. The National Promotion Week Leading Group Office will continue to distribute promotional posters for the Promotion Week, guide activities in key cities this year, hold a national Mandarin Promotion Ambassador Selection Competition, and launch a national teacher language and writing basic skills competition. , "Love My Mother Tongue, Love My China" Third National Chinese Standardized Knowledge Competition, National Prize-winning Collection of Logical Language Application Cases in Newspapers and Periodicals, and National Youth Journalist Essay (Photography) Competition, specific matters will be notified separately. The "Publicity Outline and Slogans for Promoting Mandarin" revised and issued by the National Promotion Week Leading Group Office in 2005 can continue to be used in this promotion week.

10. All provincial language and writing departments (education administration departments) must submit their plans for the ninth Popularization Week activities in their respective regions to the Office of the National Leading Group for Popularization Week before July 10 this year. (Language Application Management Department, Ministry of Education). And submit a summary of the activities of this promotion week before the end of October. Contact TV: 010-66097030, 66097802; Fax: 66096681.

Attachment: 1. Outline and slogans for promoting Putonghua

2. Activity plan for the 9th Beijing Putonghua Promotion Week

Ministry of Education

中*** Central Propaganda Department

Personnel Department

Ministry of Culture

State Administration of Radio, Film and Television

National Language Literary Work Committee

General Political Department of the People's Liberation Army

*** Youth League Central Committee

April 24, 2006