What is the significance of popularizing Putonghua?

Vigorously promoting and actively popularizing Putonghua, which is commonly used throughout the country, is conducive to eliminating language barriers and promoting social communication, and is of great significance to social, economic, political, cultural construction and social development.

With the reform and opening up and the development of socialist market economy, the demand for popularizing Putonghua is increasingly urgent. Popularizing Putonghua and creating a good language environment are conducive to promoting personnel exchanges and commodity circulation and cultivating a unified big market.

China is a populous country with many nationalities, languages and dialects. Popularizing Putonghua is conducive to promoting exchanges among all ethnic groups and regions, safeguarding national unity and enhancing the cohesion of the Chinese nation.

The level of information technology is one of the symbols to measure the level of science and technology in a country. Standardization of language and characters is the premise of improving the level of Chinese information processing. Popularizing Putonghua and implementing the scheme of Chinese Pinyin are conducive to promoting the development and application of Chinese information processing technology.

In short, the promotion of Putonghua is conducive to the development of China's advanced productive forces and advanced culture, in line with the fundamental interests of the people of all ethnic groups in China, and is a concrete action to implement Theory of Three Represents, adhere to the people-oriented principle, implement a comprehensive, coordinated and sustainable Scientific Outlook on Development, and serve a harmonious society and build a well-off society in an all-round way.

In order to meet the needs of reform and opening up, economic construction and social development, in 1986, the state listed the promotion of Putonghua as the primary task of language and writing work in the new period, and in 1992, it was determined that the policy of promoting Putonghua was "vigorously promoting, actively popularizing and gradually improving", which put forward higher requirements for strengthening government behavior, expanding popularization scope and improving the application level of Putonghua for the whole people.

Languages of all ethnic groups exist on an equal footing, and all ethnic groups have the freedom to use and develop their own languages. The state encourages all ethnic groups to learn languages from each other. Mandarin should be taught in Chinese courses offered by schools that teach in minority languages, and Mandarin should be used when Chinese is needed in minority autonomous areas.

Correctly handling the relationship between Putonghua and Chinese dialects and adhering to the principle of combining subjectivity with diversity in social language life will enable citizens to generally have the ability to use Putonghua on the one hand, and respect the use value and cultural value of dialects on the other. Promoting Putonghua is not to eliminate dialects, but to let citizens master the national common language while using dialects, and consciously use Putonghua in formal occasions and public communication occasions.

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