Information on promoting Mandarin?

China is a country with many languages ??and dialects. The Chinese government is making great efforts to promote Mandarin, the official language, and strives to have 1.3 billion people speak Mandarin by 2050.

In China, although writing Chinese is the same, speaking Chinese is different. This situation occurs in different parts of China. For example, people in Beijing cannot understand people in Shanghai, just like Latin Americans have difficulty listening to Portuguese. For southerners, they have difficulty pronouncing "N" and "L" because they do not exist in Cantonese. Therefore, when communicating between southerners and northerners, they often use pens to communicate.

According to a survey report by Renmin University of China, 20% of China's urban population cannot speak Mandarin, and this proportion will definitely be higher in rural areas and remote minority areas. To this end, the country has specially set up an annual Mandarin Week, which has been held every year since 1998. The Ministry of Education, the State Language Commission and relevant departments have formed a leading group to promote the popularization week and jointly organize it. For more than 20 years, Popularization Week has become an important platform to promote the country's common spoken and written language, improve social and cultural quality, and inherit the excellent Chinese culture.

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Putonghua Popularization Week

Held every year in the third week of September, the purpose is to let more Chinese people speak Mandarin.

The 22nd National Mandarin Promotion Week in 2019 was held from September 16 to 22. The theme of this promotion week is "Reciting the 70th Anniversary in Mandarin and Standardizing the Patriotic Feelings in Calligraphy". This promotion week opened in Shanghai on September 16 and ended in Kaili City, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province on September 22.

During and before the popularization week, various localities will carry out activities focusing on vigorously promoting and standardizing the use of the national common language, promoting popularization to help fight poverty, inheriting and carrying forward China's excellent traditional culture, etc., through posters, public service advertisements, etc. In the form, Mandarin proficiency test and Chinese character application proficiency test will be carried out.

A series of activities such as the launch of the third batch of "Chinese Demonstration Recitation Library for Primary and Secondary Schools", the launch of the first "Chinese Poetry Conference" local selection event, the launch of the first "Celebrities Entering Campus" event, etc. to promote Mandarin were grandly celebrated. The 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China.

China.com - National Promotion Week of Putonghua Opens on September 16th