1. Popularizing the national common spoken and written languages and promoting the standardization of the use of spoken and written languages are the necessary conditions for ensuring the efficient operation of society and improving the level of social informatization, which is in line with the development requirements of China's advanced productive forces, the orientation of advanced culture and the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people, and is one of the basic tasks for realizing the grand goal of building a well-off society in an all-round way and promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation put forward by the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. The purpose of establishing a model school is to further improve the overall level of school language and writing work and promote the school to better play its basic role and positive influence in the whole society.

2. Popularizing Putonghua and standardizing language and writing are important contents of quality education. Giving full play to the role of education and teaching, educating students with the national common language and writing, and making students have good language application ability are the needs of cultivating hundreds of millions of high-quality workers, tens of millions of specialized talents and a large number of top-notch innovative talents. Carrying out the activities of establishing model schools is of great significance for comprehensively promoting quality education and improving the humanistic quality of young people.

3. In recent years, all kinds of schools at all levels have continuously stepped up their efforts to incorporate the requirements of popularizing Putonghua and standardizing spoken and written languages into their training objectives, into their management practices and into their basic skills training, which have penetrated into various educational and teaching activities such as moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic and social practice, and accumulated a lot of experience, and many schools with outstanding achievements in spoken and written languages have emerged. Carrying out the activity of establishing a model school is conducive to encouraging the advanced, popularizing the experience, driving more schools to jointly promote the improvement, and ensuring that the goal of "popularizing Putonghua in the whole country initially before 20 10 and standardizing the Chinese characters used in society" is realized as scheduled.

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"People's Republic of China (PRC) National Language Law"? Chapter II Use of the National Common Language and Characters

Article 9 State organs use Putonghua and standardize Chinese characters. Except as otherwise provided by law.

Tenth schools and other educational institutions should use Putonghua and standardized Chinese characters as the basic language of education and teaching. Except as otherwise provided by law.

Schools and other educational institutions teach Putonghua and standardize Chinese characters through Chinese courses. The Chinese textbooks used shall conform to the norms and standards of the national common language.

Article 11 Chinese publications shall conform to the norms and standards of the national common language.

If a Chinese publication needs to use a foreign language, it shall be marked in the national common language.

Twelfth radio stations and television stations use Putonghua as the basic broadcasting language.

If it is really necessary to use a foreign language as a broadcasting language, it must be approved by the radio and television department of the State Council.

Article 13

The public service industry takes standardized Chinese characters as the basic service words. Signboards, advertisements, notices, signs, etc. set up for the needs of public services. If both foreign languages and Chinese are used, standardized Chinese characters should be used.

Advocate the public service industry to use Putonghua as the service language.

Opinions of the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC)-State Language Committee of the Ministry of Education on establishing a model school for standardization of language and writing.