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Promotion of Putonghua (, also 推普) is a movement led by the 
Promotion of Putonghua (, also 推普) is a movement led by the government of China
The Government of the People's Republic of China () is an authoritarian political system in the People's Republic of China under the exclusive political leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). It consists of legislative, executive, mil ...
since the Communist Party came to the power. Currently, the Promotion of Putonghua
Standard Chinese ()—in linguistics Standard Northern Mandarin or Standard Beijing Mandarin, in common speech simply Mandarin, better qualified as Standard Mandarin, Modern Standard Mandarin or Standard Mandarin Chinese—is a modern standar ...
is led by State Language Work Committee
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( 国家语言文字工作委员会), a governing body which regulates language use on behalf of the People's Republic of China
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.「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。
See also
*Standard Chinese
Standard Chinese ()—in linguistics Standard Northern Mandarin or Standard Beijing Mandarin, in common speech simply Mandarin, better qualified as Standard Mandarin, Modern Standard Mandarin or Standard Mandarin Chinese—is a modern standa ...
*Varieties of Chinese
Chinese, also known as Sinitic, is a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family consisting of hundreds of local varieties, many of which are not mutually intelligible. Variation is particularly strong in the more mountainous southeast of mai ...
* Linguistic imperialism
* Protection of the varieties of Chinese
* Speak Mandarin Campaign in Singapore
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