Information on promoting Putonghua

China is a country with many languages and dialects. China Municipal Government is vigorously promoting the official language-Putonghua, and strives to make 654.38+03 billion people speak Putonghua by 2050.

In China, although writing Chinese is the same, speaking Chinese is different. When this happens in different parts of China, for example, Beijingers can't understand Shanghainese, just as Latin Americans have difficulty listening to Portuguese. For southerners, it is difficult to pronounce "n" and "l" because they do not exist in Cantonese. Therefore, when southerners communicate with northerners, they often write them out with pens.

According to a survey report of China Renmin University, 20% of the urban population in China can't speak Mandarin, and the proportion will definitely be higher in rural areas and remote ethnic minority areas. For this reason, the country has specially set up an annual Putonghua Week, which is held once a year from 1998. The Ministry of Education, the State Language Committee and relevant departments will form a leading group to promote Putonghua Week and organize its implementation. For more than 20 years, Tuipu Week has become an important platform to promote the national common language, improve the social and cultural quality and inherit the excellent Chinese culture.

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Putonghua promotion week

Held in the third week of September every year, the aim is to make more people in China speak Mandarin.

20 19 The 22nd National Publicity Week of Putonghua Promotion was held from September 16 to 22, and the theme of this publicity week was "Celebrating the 70th birthday of Putonghua and standardizing the patriotic feelings of calligraphy". This year's Popularization Week opened in Shanghai on September 16 and closed on September 22nd in Kaili City, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province.

During and around the popularization week, all localities will carry out activities around vigorously promoting and standardizing the use of the national common language, promoting popularization and poverty alleviation, inheriting and carrying forward Chinese excellent traditional culture, and carry out Putonghua proficiency test and Chinese character application level test through posters, public service advertisements and other forms.

The third batch of "Chinese demonstration reading libraries for primary and secondary schools" was launched, the first "Chinese Poetry Conference" was held for local selection, and the first "Famous Scholars on Campus" was held to promote Putonghua, celebrating the 70th anniversary of the founding of New China.

China Net-National Putonghua Promotion Week opened on September 16.