Chinese has a long history and the largest number of users. The number of people who use Chinese in the world is at least 65.438+0.5 billion, which is more than 20% of the world's total population. It is the official language of China, one of the four official languages of Singapore and one of the six working languages of the United Nations. Mainly distributed in China, Singapore, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand and other Southeast Asian countries, as well as Chinese communities in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Japan.
2065438+In September, 2004, the Russian Federal Bureau of Education, Science and Supervision indicated that Chinese should be included in the national unified examination for Russian middle school students.
It is reported that the Russian unified national examination is not only a high school graduation examination, but also a college entrance examination. At present, the foreign language subjects in the unified examination are English, French, Spanish and German. Graduates can voluntarily choose to take foreign language exams according to the requirements of the selected institutions.
From 20 15, China people will appear in the Russian Olympic competition for middle school students, and the winners will enjoy preferential admission of government-funded places.
20 19 On February 23rd, when Crown Prince mohamed ben salman's visit to China was coming to an end, Saudi Arabia announced that Chinese would be included in the curriculum of all stages of education in the kingdom, making the country's education more diversified.
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Distribution of Putonghua in China
Chinese is mainly distributed in China (mainland China, Hongkong, Macau and Taiwan Province Province), Singapore, Malaysia, Mongolia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, North Korea, South Korea, Japan, western states of the United States and Hawaii.
According to the statistics of UNESCO, the population speaking Chinese is about 654.38+06 billion, ranking first in the world (accounting for one fifth of the world's population) and third in the world (English is the first, Spanish is the second, and more than 50 million foreigners use Chinese as a second language). Chinese is one of the six official languages of the United Nations.
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