Ye Shengtao enthusiastically advocates the standardization of modern Chinese, including the standardization of grammar, rhetoric, vocabulary, punctuation, simplification of characters and the removal of variant characters. He also compiled and standardized the Chinese characters in his publications, and stipulated the scheme of Chinese Pinyin. His efforts have improved the quality and organizational structure of editing work.

Most importantly, Ye Shengtao advocates the use of vernacular Chinese in the field of publishing. Most of his magazines and newspapers use vernacular Chinese, which greatly facilitates the reading of journalists and readers. These contributions have promoted the development of journalism in China.

Educational contribution

Ye Shengtao's educational thought has made a unique and systematic contribution to the modern educational theory with China characteristics.

This educational thought takes China's educational reform practice as the logical starting point, and forms China's educational reform theory of materialism and dialectics. In exploring and answering the practical problems of China's educational reform, he brilliantly and uniquely revealed the basic principles of modern education in China. In summing up and refining the practical experience of China's education reform, China's modern education and teaching theory has been developed and innovated.

Ye Shengtao's first academic paper on children's literature was entitled "The Concept of Children", which criticized the bad influence on children in China.

In fact, Ye Shengtao was the first fairy tale writer in the 1920s. The work Scarecrow was published in 1923. This children's book is very popular among many teenagers. Another work, The Stone Statue of Ancient Heroes, tells the story that a stone was carved into a heroic image. The moral behind this popular story is to laugh at the arrogance of experts and people's numbness.