Why should we promote Putonghua?

Language is the most important communication tool and information carrier, and the popularization of national languages is an important foundation for national unity, national unity and social progress. Mandarin is the national language. It takes Beijing dialect as the standard pronunciation, northern dialect as the basic dialect, and typical modern vernacular as the grammatical norm.

In the historical process of Socialism with Chinese characteristics's modernization, vigorously promoting and actively popularizing Putonghua, which is commonly used throughout the country, is conducive to overcoming language barriers and promoting social exchanges, and is of great significance to socialist economic, political and cultural construction.

With the reform and opening up and the establishment of socialist market economy, the objective demand for Putonghua in society is increasingly urgent. Popularizing Putonghua and creating a good language environment are conducive to promoting personnel exchanges, commodity circulation and establishing a unified market. People began to consciously demand the use of Putonghua in economic activities.

Popularizing Putonghua is the need of national unity and national unity. Whether a country or a nation has a unified and standardized language is a political event related to national independence and national cohesion. Article 19 of the Constitution of People's Republic of China (PRC) stipulates: "The State promotes the common Putonghua throughout the country". Using the common language of the country is an obligation that every citizen should fulfill, and it is also a concrete embodiment of citizens' national consciousness, sovereignty consciousness, legal consciousness, civilization consciousness and modern consciousness. China is a multi-ethnic and multi-dialect country. Popularizing Putonghua is conducive to promoting exchanges and contacts between ethnic groups in China, enhancing the cohesion of the Chinese nation, and also contributing to China's influence in the international community.

Popularizing Putonghua is the need to strengthen quality education. The fundamental task of China's cross-century education development and reform is to implement quality education. The Decision of Central the State Council on Deepening Education Reform and Promoting Quality Education in an All-round Way, promulgated by the just-concluded Third National Education Work Conference, puts forward clear requirements for cultivating innovative talents and promoting quality education in an all-round way. Quality is a comprehensive reflection of knowledge, ability and conscience. Language is the tool of thinking expression, the carrier of cultural knowledge and the support of communicative competence, so it is the foundation of quality composition and development and the necessary condition of cultural construction. Lv Shuxiang, a famous linguist, once pointed out: "Learning Chinese well is the basis of learning everything well". Especially in today's information age, language specification is a necessary prerequisite for mastering computer language. For students of any learning period and any major, being able to speak fluent Mandarin, having strong language and writing skills and computer operation skills are the most useful skills, and they can be in an advantageous position in study, job hunting and professional competition. Popularizing Putonghua is an important content of quality education in schools at all levels, which is conducive to implementing the educational strategic policy of facing modernization, facing the world and facing the future, carrying forward the excellent traditional culture and patriotism of the motherland, and strengthening the construction of socialist spiritual civilization. Language civilization is the most direct embodiment of people's quality. It is an important content of socialist spiritual civilization and national quality education to improve people's language moral consciousness, implement the moral norms of language behavior and strengthen the construction of language civilization. Cultivating socialist citizens with ideals, morality, culture and discipline, and improving the ideological and moral quality and scientific and cultural quality of the whole nation are inseparable from language and writing work. The socialist modernization needs hundreds of millions of high-quality workers and thousands of professionals. In addition to ideological and business requirements, you should also have strong language and writing skills. The level of a person's cultural accomplishment depends largely on his own language and writing. Using pure and healthy language is an important part of personal cultivation.

As a social tool, language records the achievements of scientific and technological development and conveys the latest information of scientific and technological development. The more advanced science and technology are, the wider the application of language and writing, and the closer the relationship with society is. Standardization, standardization and applied research level of language and characters are prerequisites for Chinese information processing technology. Popularizing Putonghua and implementing the scheme of Chinese Pinyin are conducive to promoting the development and application of Chinese information technology processing.

Popularizing Putonghua is the internal demand of all walks of life. For radio and television systems, the use of standard language is not only related to the actual effect of radio and television, but also has a great impact on the norms of the whole society. For the education system, "Putonghua is the professional language of teachers, and teaching in Putonghua is one of the necessary conditions for qualified teachers and the basic vocational skills of students in normal colleges and vocational middle schools". For the party and government organs, using Putonghua as the working language is an act of law enforcement, which embodies the seriousness and standardization of the work of the organs, and is conducive to improving the quality of cadres and strengthening the civilized construction of the organs. For transportation, post and telecommunications, finance, commerce, tourism and other enterprises and service industries, promoting Putonghua can improve the cultural quality and comprehensive quality of employees, promote the cultural construction of enterprises and industries, help establish a good image, and improve economic and social benefits, which is the need for enterprises and industries to better serve the society.

As can be seen from the above, Putonghua is the teaching language of all kinds of schools with Chinese as the teaching language; It is the standard language of radio stations and TV stations at all levels spread in Chinese. It is the standard language that China movies, TV plays and dramas must use. It is the working language that cadres of party and government organs, organizations, enterprises and institutions in China must use in their official activities; It is the common language of people in different dialect areas and ethnic groups in China. Vigorously promoting and actively popularizing Putonghua, which is commonly used in the whole country, is not only the urgent need of current economic construction, cultural construction and social development, but also the earnest desire of people of all ethnic groups, which is in the fundamental interests of the people of the whole country.