Speaking of "shorthand", we should start with "shorthand". In China, shorthand first appeared in 1896, in the form of "handwriting", using a simple "symbol" recording language. Until the mid-1990s, "Handwritten Symbol Shorthand" occupied the dominant position in the shorthand market, and saved a lot of precious historical materials for the party and the country. However, with the development of science and technology and the arrival of knowledge economy era, especially the development of network media, the application and promotion of handwritten shorthand has many limitations.

1993, the research team led by Professor Tang, a famous shorthand expert in China, developed shorthand technology from the traditional handwritten symbol method to the computer shorthand method, and invented the China shorthand recorder, which marked that the history of shorthand in China jumped from handwritten shorthand to mechanical shorthand and directly entered the computer shorthand stage, breaking through the two international problems of "computerization of shorthand" and "real-time recording language", and the birth of shorthand recorder also filled the shorthand in China. At the same time, China has finally ushered in a brand-new era of "replacing handwritten shorthand with a shorthand recorder", and a new profession of "36 1 line" was born in the ancient "360 lines"-a shorthand recorder. In August 2003, the Ministry of Labor and Social Security promulgated the National Professional Standard for Stenographers, which formally brought stenographers into the national professional system.