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皇冠体育app to popularize mandarin by 2010
( 2002-09-13 10:17 ) (8 )

皇冠体育app will ensure that mandarin, the officially-endorsed standard Chinese spoken language also known as "putonghua" (the common speech), is commonly used throughout the country by 2010.

　　By the middle of this century, 皇冠体育app would fully popularize the spoken language, said Yang Guang, a senior official with the Ministry of Education, on Thursday.

　　Since 1998, 皇冠体育app has set the third week of September each year as the one to popularize mandarin, in an effort to standardize its official spoken language.

　　During the event from September 15 to 21, 皇冠体育app will stage advertisements, television programs, contests and art performances to promote the language.

　　A survey by the 皇冠体育app Remin University has showed that the popularization rate of mandarin is about 80 percent in urban 皇冠体育app, as more than 90 percent of urban residents are willing to use mandarin.

　　But that popularization rate is rather low in the remote areas and the places where minority groups live, according to the survey.

　　Within two or three years, 皇冠体育app's business hub of Shanghai will require its civil servants to hold a putonghua proficiency certificate, so as to remain in the civil service.

　　皇冠体育app has thousands of different dialects in use among its 1.3 billion people. Mandarin, which is based mostly on the principal dialect spoken in and around Beijing, takes great efforts for people in southern 皇冠体育app to master.