According to statistics, 1000 commonly used words can cover about 92% of written materials, 2,000 words can cover more than 98%, and 3,000 words have reached 99%. Simplified statistics are not much different from traditional statistics.
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Wang Qi, director of the Planning and Coordination Department of the Language and Information Department of the Ministry of Education, pointed out that since the founding of New China, China has vigorously promoted the national common language, scientifically protected the languages of all ethnic groups, comprehensively promoted the legalization, standardization, standardization and informationization of the languages, and embarked on a road of developing the languages with China characteristics.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council have attached great importance to the development of language and writing, the strategic position of language and writing work has been further clarified, the national language and writing ability has been comprehensively improved, and the pace of language and writing work going international has been obviously accelerated.
People's network -70 years of Chinese character research has achieved fruitful results.
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