Promotion of Putonghua

Promotion of Putonghua (Chinese: 推广普通话; pinyin: tuīguǎng Pǔtōnghuà, also 推普[1]) is a movement led by the government of China since the Communist Party come to the power. Currently, the Promotion of Putonghua is led by State Language Work Committee (国家语言文字工作委员会), a working organ which is the language regulator of People's Republic of China.[2][3][4]

"Work hard to promote Putonghua thereby strengthening the cohesiveness of the Chinese people." (approximate translation of the text 大力推广普通话，增强中华民族凝聚力。)

A kindergarten in Shanghai with writing a propaganda slogan in the wall: "Let everybody speak Standard Mandarin, [and] standardize speech and spelling" (大家请说普通话,语言文字规范化), in order to promote Putonghua.

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References
  1. "方言文化与"推普"效益". 浙江社会科学 (2): 138–141. 1999.
  2. 职责、历史沿革 委领导 (in Chinese) Archived 2014-12-10 at the Wayback Machine
  3. 「推廣普通話的目的……同時也是為實現漢字的根本改革——走世界文字共同的拼音方向準備條件。」曹夫昂，文字改革工作問答。上海：上海教育工作社，1980年5月，第33頁。 (in Chinese)
  4. 「偉大領袖毛主席在一九五一年指示我們：『文字必須改革，要走世界文字共同的拼音方向。』毛主席又指出，漢字的拼音化需要做許多準備工作，在實現拼音化以前，必須簡化漢字，以利目前的應用。一九五八年，毛主席還指示我們：『一切幹部要學普通話。』毛主席的這些指示，是我國文字改革的指導方針。」摘自署名文華的文章〈文字必須改革〉，刊於《人民日報》1973年7月6日第三版。 (in Chinese)
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