Details of the Notice on Launching the Fourth National Publicity Week for Promoting Putonghua

In order to do a good job in the fourth national publicity week, the relevant matters are hereby notified as follows:

1. Guiding ideology of the fourth National Popularization Week: Guided by the spirit of the 15th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) on Common Language and Characters, through various forms of publicity activities, widely publicize the necessity and urgency of vigorously popularizing Putonghua to the whole society, and promote the standardization of language and characters in socialist modernization. Further improve the awareness of language standardization and participation in popularization of cadres and the masses, and promote the further development of putonghua promotion and language standardization.

Second, the theme of the Fourth National Popularization Week: publicize and implement the Law on the National Common Language and Characters, vigorously promote Putonghua, and promote the standardization of language and characters.

The Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) on Common Languages and Characters was deliberated and adopted by the 18th session of the 9th the NPC Standing Committee from June 5 to1October 36, 2000, and came into effect from June 6 to1October 6, 2000. This law is the first special language law in China, which stipulates the legal status of Putonghua and standardized Chinese characters as the national common language, and clearly stipulates the use of the national common language by state organs, schools, news media and public service industries. This year's Law Popularization Week is the first law popularization week after the promulgation of the Law on the National Common Language and Characters, and the publicity and implementation of the Law on the National Common Language and Characters should be the main content.

During the popularization week, all localities can hold symposiums and seminars with the theme of "publicizing and implementing the national common language and writing law, vigorously promoting Putonghua and promoting the standardization of language and writing", as well as colorful activities such as essay writing, cultural performances, knowledge contests, basic skills competitions and street publicity and consultation, organize scholars and popularization workers to write articles, and strive to create a publicity atmosphere for popularizing Putonghua and promoting the standardization of language and writing.

Three, strengthen the leadership and coordination of publicity week activities. Party committees and governments at all levels,

Education, personnel, radio, film and television, culture, language and other departments should earnestly attach importance to and seriously organize the popularization week activities. Propaganda departments and radio, film and television departments should include the popularization week in the publicity plan; The education system mainly organizes activities in schools, and organizes teachers and students to participate in social publicity activities on weekends and holidays; Radio, film and television departments should not only do a good job in publicity and reporting, but also broadcast various special programs to promote Putonghua and actively participate in social activities to promote Putonghua. Literary and art workers can perform cultural programs and promote Putonghua; The personnel department should encourage civil servants to actively participate in the promotion of Putonghua. The People's Liberation Army and the Armed Police Force should vigorously publicize the significance of promoting Putonghua among officers and men to strengthen the modernization of the army and the building of socialist spiritual civilization, and strive to make the promotion of Putonghua in the army at the forefront of the whole society.

It is necessary to implement the organization of popularization week activities. Language committees at all levels are responsible for the specific organization and implementation of the popularization week activities. On the basis of soliciting opinions from propaganda, education, radio, film and television, culture and other departments and major public service industries, we will formulate a popularization week activity plan and report it to the comprehensive department of the local people's government or the leading group of Putonghua Promotion Week for unified coordination, so as to provide necessary human, material and financial support for the popularization week activities.

Four, publicity week activities should be combined with regular work. The purpose of Putonghua Promotion Week is to promote the popularization of Putonghua in a down-to-earth manner through publicity and education. It is necessary to fully implement the policy of "vigorously promoting, actively popularizing and gradually improving" in popularizing Putonghua, and establish a working pattern with the central city as the focus, the party and government organs as the leader, the school as the foundation, the news media as the example, and the public service industry as the window to drive the whole society to promote Putonghua. Combined with the tenth five-year plan of national language and writing work and the specific measures of urban language and writing work evaluation, Putonghua will gradually become the campus language and official service.

Five, publicity week publicity outline and slogan. Due to the promulgation and implementation of the National Law on Common Languages, the publicity outlines and slogans used in the first to third popularization weeks need to be supplemented and revised. The revised publicity outline and slogan are hereby printed and distributed to you, please use it in conjunction with this notice when carrying out publicity activities.

Six, the provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government) language committee (administrative department of education) to before the end of June this year, the plan to carry out the fourth popularization week in the region submitted to the National Putonghua Promotion Week leading group office. Telephone number of leading group office: omitted.

Publicity Outline of National Putonghua Promotion Week (Revised)

1. The significance of popularizing Putonghua

Mandarin is the national language. Putonghua takes Beijing dialect as the standard pronunciation, northern dialect as the basic dialect, and typical modern vernacular as the grammatical norm.

In the historical process of Socialism with Chinese characteristics's modernization, vigorously promoting and actively popularizing Putonghua, which is commonly used throughout the country, is conducive to overcoming language barriers and promoting social exchanges, and is of great significance to socialist economic, political and cultural construction.

With the reform and opening up and the development of socialist market economy, the demand for Putonghua is increasingly urgent. Popularizing Putonghua and creating a good language environment are conducive to promoting personnel exchanges, commodity circulation and establishing a unified market.

China is a multi-ethnic, multi-lingual and multi-dialect country. Popularizing Putonghua is conducive to promoting exchanges among all ethnic groups and regions, safeguarding national unity and enhancing the cohesion of the Chinese nation.

Language is an important carrier of culture. Language and writing ability is the basic content of cultural quality, and promoting Putonghua is an important content of quality education in schools at all levels. Popularizing Putonghua is conducive to implementing the educational strategic policy of facing modernization, the world and the future, promoting the excellent traditional culture and patriotism of the motherland, and strengthening the construction of socialist spiritual civilization.

The level of information technology is one of the symbols to measure the level of science and technology in a country. Language is the most important information carrier, and the standardization of language and characters is the premise to improve the level of Chinese information processing. Popularizing Putonghua and implementing the scheme of Chinese Pinyin are conducive to promoting the development and application of Chinese information processing technology.

2. The legal basis for promoting Putonghua

Article 19 of the Constitution of People's Republic of China (PRC) stipulates: "The state promotes Putonghua, which is commonly used throughout the country."

Article 3 of the Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) on Common Language and Characters stipulates: "The State promotes Putonghua and standardized Chinese characters." Article 4 stipulates: "Citizens have the right to learn and use the spoken and written languages commonly used in the country. The state provides conditions for citizens to learn and use the national common language. Local people's governments at all levels and their relevant departments should take measures to promote Putonghua and standardize Chinese characters. " Article 5 stipulates: "The use of the national common language should be conducive to safeguarding national sovereignty and national dignity, to national unity and national unity, and to the construction of socialist material and spiritual civilization." Article 9 stipulates: "Mandarin and standardized Chinese characters are the official languages of state organs." Article 10 stipulates: "Putonghua and standardized Chinese characters are the basic teaching languages in schools and other educational institutions." Article 11 stipulates: "Chinese publications shall conform to the norms and standards of the national common language." Article 12 stipulates: "Radio stations and television stations use Putonghua as the basic broadcasting language." Article 13 stipulates: "Promote the use of Putonghua as the service language in the public service industry." Article 14 stipulates that radio, film and television should use the national common language as the basic language. Article 18 stipulates: "The Chinese Pinyin Scheme is used as a spelling and phonetic tool for the national common language." "Primary education should be taught in Chinese Pinyin." Article 19 stipulates: "Where Mandarin is the working language, staff should be able to speak Mandarin. The level of Putonghua of announcers, program hosts, actors in film and television dramas, teachers and staff of state organs who use Putonghua as their working language shall meet the grade standards set by the state respectively; Those who have not yet reached the national standard of Putonghua will be trained separately. Article 20 stipulates: "Teaching Chinese as a foreign language should teach Mandarin and standardize Chinese characters."

Article 37 of the Law on Regional National Autonomy in People's Republic of China (PRC) stipulates: "Schools that mainly recruit minority students should use textbooks in minority languages, and if conditions permit, they should teach in minority languages; Chinese courses are offered in the upper grades of primary schools or middle schools to promote Mandarin, which is commonly used throughout the country. " Article 49 stipulates: "The organs of self-government of ethnic autonomous areas educate and encourage cadres of all ethnic groups to learn languages from each other. Han cadres should learn the spoken and written languages of local ethnic minorities. While learning and using their own spoken and written languages, ethnic minority cadres should also learn Mandarin and Chinese commonly used throughout the country. "

Article 12 of the Education Law of the People's Republic of China stipulates: "Schools and other educational institutions should promote the use of Putonghua and standardized characters commonly used throughout the country in teaching."

Article 6 of the Compulsory Education Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) stipulates: "Schools should promote the use of Putonghua, which is commonly used throughout the country. Schools that recruit ethnic minority students can teach in the language commonly used by ethnic minorities. "

Article 24 of the Detailed Rules for the Implementation of the Compulsory Education Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) stipulates: "Schools that implement compulsory education shall promote the use of Putonghua commonly used throughout the country in education, teaching and various activities. Mandarin should be used in education, teaching and activities in normal colleges. "

Article 6 of the Regulations on the Work of Eliminating Illiteracy stipulates: "The teaching of eliminating illiteracy should use Mandarin commonly used throughout the country."

Article 15 of the Regulations on the Administration of Kindergartens stipulates: "Kindergartens should use Mandarin commonly used throughout the country."

Article 14 of the Regulations on Administrative Work in Ethnic Towns: "Primary and secondary schools in ethnic townships can use the spoken and written languages commonly used by local ethnic minorities for teaching, and at the same time promote Putonghua commonly used throughout the country."

Article 36 of the Regulations on the Administration of Radio and Television in People's Republic of China (PRC) stipulates: "Radio stations and television stations shall use standardized spoken and written languages. Radio stations and TV stations should promote Mandarin, which is commonly used throughout the country. "

3. Policies to promote Putonghua

In order to meet the needs of reform and opening up, economic construction and social development, the state has listed the promotion of Putonghua as the primary task of language and writing work in the new period in 1986. 1992 in strengthening government behavior, expanding the scope of popularization and improving the application level of Putonghua for all people, the policy of promoting Putonghua has been changed from "vigorously promoting, focusing on promoting and gradually popularizing" to "vigorously promoting, actively popularizing and gradually improving". Practice has proved that this policy meets the actual needs and plays an important guiding role in popularizing Putonghua throughout the country.

Mandarin is the national language. The state vigorously promotes and actively popularizes Putonghua throughout the country, and gradually improves the application level of Putonghua in the whole society.

Languages of all ethnic groups exist on an equal footing, and all ethnic groups have the freedom to use and develop their own languages. The state encourages all ethnic groups to learn languages from each other. Schools that teach Chinese in minority languages should teach Mandarin. When ethnic autonomous areas and ethnic autonomous areas need Chinese, they should promote the use of Putonghua.

In dealing with the relationship between Putonghua and Chinese dialects, we should adhere to the principle of combining subjectivity with diversity in social language life, on the one hand, make citizens generally have the ability to use Putonghua, and consciously use Putonghua on certain occasions; On the other hand, it is recognized that dialects have their own use value in specific occasions, and promoting Putonghua is not to eliminate dialects.

4. Current ideas and requirements for promoting Putonghua.

To promote Putonghua, we should closely focus on social needs, proceed from the national conditions in the primary stage of socialism, follow the law of language development, strengthen government behavior, focus on central cities such as municipalities directly under the central government, provincial capitals and autonomous regions, take schools as the foundation, take party and government organs as the leader, take news media such as radio and television as the example, and take the public service industry as the window to promote Putonghua popularization.

At present, the requirements for promoting Putonghua are as follows: First, schools and other educational institutions use Putonghua as the basic language of education and teaching, and only teachers with standard Putonghua can take up their posts. Schools at all levels should strengthen the training of Putonghua ability, especially pay attention to the improvement of Putonghua oral ability, so that Putonghua can become the teaching language of schools at all levels and the campus language of urban schools. The administrative department of education should incorporate the requirements of improving students' awareness of language and writing norms and their ability to apply language and writing into the training objectives and relevant curriculum standards of schools at all levels, into the basic contents of education, teaching and students' skills training, into school schedules and daily management, and penetrate into educational activities such as moral education, intellectual education, physical education, aesthetic education and social practice. Second, the party and government organs use Putonghua as the basic official language, and civil servants consciously speak Putonghua in their official activities to continuously improve their Putonghua level. Party and government organs should set an example in promoting Putonghua, and urge and drive the whole society to promote Putonghua. Third, audio media such as radio, film and television should use Putonghua as the basic language, advocate Putonghua as the service language of commerce, tourism, posts and telecommunications, transportation, railways, civil aviation, finance, health and other industries, and staff should strive to improve the level of Putonghua. The People's Liberation Army and the Armed Police Force should use Putonghua as their working language to help cadres and soldiers improve their Putonghua level. Fourth, language and writing institutions at all levels should strengthen the leadership and management of Putonghua proficiency testing, and constantly improve the scientific level of training and testing. Fifth, speed up the formulation and publication of language and writing standards that meet the needs of society.

5. The goal and basic measures of popularizing Putonghua in the new century.

The goal of popularizing Putonghua in the new century is: before 20 10, popularize Putonghua nationwide, basically eliminate the dialect barrier in communication, and citizens with medium education or above have the ability to use Putonghua, and consciously use Putonghua when necessary; Before the middle of this century, Mandarin was popularized all over the country, and there was no dialect barrier in communication. After the unremitting efforts in the next 40 to 50 years, the Chinese language quality of our people will be greatly improved, and the social application of Putonghua will be more suitable for the needs of socialist economic, political and cultural construction, forming a good language environment suitable for the level of moderately developed countries.

Putonghua promotion takes target management, quantitative evaluation, Putonghua proficiency test and publicity and education centered on Putonghua Promotion Week as the basic measures, constantly strengthens administrative management, and gradually embarks on the track of institutionalization, standardization and science.

"Target management and quantitative evaluation" is a scientific management method for promoting Putonghua in departments and regions. Since the Eighth Five-Year Plan, the series of evaluation and guidance standards for promoting Putonghua in normal universities, urban primary and secondary schools and vocational middle schools have played an important guiding role in promoting the promotion of Putonghua in schools. Putonghua was initially popularized in municipalities directly under the central government, provincial capital cities, autonomous region capitals and cities under separate state planning around 2002, in cities where provincial and regional administrative offices are located around 2005, and in towns where county governments are located before 20 10.

"Putonghua Proficiency Test" is a language test to evaluate individuals' ability to master Putonghua norms and use Putonghua according to the Putonghua Proficiency Test Grade Standard and Test Outline issued by the State Language Committee. If Mandarin is the working language, the staff should be able to speak Mandarin. Announcers, program hosts, actors in film and television dramas, teachers, staff of state organs, and graduates of teachers' majors and other majors closely related to oral expression should reach the grade standards stipulated by the state respectively; Those who have not yet reached the standard of Putonghua prescribed by the state shall be trained separately.

With the approval of the State Council, the third week of September is "National Putonghua Promotion Week" from 1998. The annual Popularization Week mobilizes all walks of life and people to actively participate in the promotion of Putonghua through various publicity and education activities, which will play a positive role in promoting the standardization of language and writing.

Slogan of National Putonghua Promotion Week (Revised)

1. The state promotes Putonghua, which is commonly used throughout the country.

-The Constitution of People's Republic of China (PRC)

2. The State promotes Putonghua and standardized Chinese characters.

-Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) on the Common Language and Characters.

3. Correctly use the spoken and written languages of the motherland and vigorously promote Putonghua.

-Outline for the Implementation of Patriotism Education

4. The policy of promoting Putonghua is "vigorously promoting, actively popularizing and gradually improving".

5. Establish a sense of language norms and improve the quality of national culture.

6. Vigorously promote Putonghua and enhance the cohesion of the Chinese nation.

7. Love the national flag, sing the national anthem and speak Mandarin.

8. Popularize Putonghua and create a good language environment for modernization.