Needless to say, the overall Chinese level of contemporary college students is not high. Many people are not only mediocre in Chinese studies such as classics and historical subsets, but also unable to write fluent and beautiful modern vernacular, and can only cope with daily practical writing.

Many of them don't even have a basic level of Chinese, so they stumble and misspell. This has something to do with the continuous expansion of enrollment in colleges and universities, which leads to the decline in the quality of students, and the fact that the whole education system does not attach importance to education in China. Based on this worrying situation, the Ministry of Education suggested that universities offer Chinese courses. However, Peking University, Tsinghua and other schools regard Chinese as a compulsory course, which is a positive response.

The difference between the two media reports is: Is it a mandatory "requirement" or a mild "suggestion" for the Ministry of Education to offer Chinese courses in colleges and universities? In fact, improving students' Chinese level is a multi-level problem: compared with students in private schools, even compared with college students in the 1980 s, the Chinese level of contemporary college students has declined; Compared with their emphasis on English and other subjects, their study of Chinese has been neglected horizontally.

But this is only a general situation, and the Chinese level of college students is uneven for everyone. Therefore, it is not appropriate to adopt a simple one-size-fits-all approach, but to comprehensively apply mandatory "requirements" and moderate "suggestions" to solve the problem.

First of all, Chinese education in colleges and universities should set a mandatory "passing line" to test basic grammar and composition. You can't graduate if you fail, which is similar to Band 4. Supposedly, Chinese basic education should have been completed in primary and secondary schools, but the fact is that the importance of Chinese education, especially writing training, has not been fully reflected in the entrance examination for many years, and a large number of students with unskilled mother tongue continue to enter universities.

For these students, the university stage is their last chance to make up the Chinese class before leaving school. In order to avoid their possible embarrassment in the future, colleges and universities should offer basic courses of Chinese education so that every graduate can express his ideas accurately and smoothly.