Standard Mandarin/Putonghua, another name of modern standard Chinese, is a common language with Beijing pronunciation as the standard pronunciation, northern Mandarin as the basic dialect and typical modern vernacular as the grammatical norm. Chinese is different from Putonghua. The promotion of Putonghua is not to eliminate dialects artificially, but mainly to eliminate dialect barriers, which is conducive to social communication and is not contradictory to people's use of inherited dialects.
As one of the working languages of the United Nations, Mandarin has become an important bridge for cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries and the first choice for foreigners to learn Chinese. By 20 15, 70% of the population in China has the ability to use Putonghua, and about 400 million people are limited to one-way communication. The Implementation Plan of the National Common Language Popularization Project plans to basically popularize the national common language in the whole country by 2020. Specifically, the average popularization rate of Putonghua in the whole country is over 80%.