In order to do a good job in the Fourth National Popularization Week, the relevant matters are hereby notified as follows:

1. The guiding ideology of the Fourth National Popularization Week: under the guidance of the spirit of the 15th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Common Language and Characters, we will widely publicize to the whole society the necessity and urgency of vigorously promoting Putonghua and promoting the standardization of language and characters for socialist modernization through various forms of publicity activities.

second, the theme of the 4th National Popularization Week: publicize and implement the Law of the State on Common Language and Characters, vigorously promote Putonghua, and promote the standardization of language and characters.

the law of the people's Republic of China on the common spoken and written language was deliberated and adopted at the 18th session of the 9th the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) on October 31th, 2111, and came into force on October 1th, 2111. This law is the first special law on language 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 popularization week is the first popularization week after the promulgation of the Law on the National Common Language and Characters, and it is necessary to publicize and implement the Law on the National Common Language and Characters as the main content.

during the popularization week, all localities can hold symposiums and seminars with the theme of "publicizing and implementing the National Law on Common Languages and Characters, vigorously promoting Putonghua and promoting the standardization of languages and characters", as well as colorful activities such as essay writing, cultural performances, knowledge contests, basic skills competitions, street publicity and consultation, etc., organize scholars and popularization workers to write articles, and strive to create a publicity atmosphere for popularizing Putonghua and promoting the standardization of languages and characters.

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

education, personnel, radio, film and television, culture, language and writing departments, etc., should earnestly attach importance to and seriously organize the activities of popularizing general education. Propaganda departments and radio, film and television departments should include 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 literary and artistic programs to promote Putonghua; Personnel departments 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 popularizing Putonghua among the officers and men to strengthen the modernization of the army and the construction of socialist spiritual civilization, and strive to make the promotion of Putonghua in the army at the forefront of the whole society.

we should implement the organization of the popularization week. Language committees at all levels are responsible for the specific organization and implementation of 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, they should formulate a plan for Popularization Week activities and report it to the comprehensive department of the local people's government or the leading group for Putonghua Promotion Week for unified coordination, so as to provide the necessary manpower, material resources and financial guarantee for Popularization Week activities.

Fourth, the activities of popularizing general education should be combined with regular work. The purpose of promoting Putonghua Week is to promote the promotion 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, establish a work pattern that focuses on central cities, takes party and government organs as the leader, takes schools as the foundation, takes news media as the example, takes the public service industry as the window, and drives the whole society to popularize 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 a campus language and official service.

5. Promote the publicity outline and slogan of the activities of Popularization Week. 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 with this notice for use in carrying out publicity activities.

VI. The language committees (education administrative departments) of all provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government) should report the plan of the fourth Popularization Week in this region to the office of the National Putonghua Promotion Week Leading Group before the end of June this year. Telephone number of leading group office: omitted.

Publicity Outline of the National Publicity Week for Promoting Putonghua (revised)

1. Significance of promoting Putonghua

Putonghua is a common language in China. Putonghua takes Beijing pronunciation as the standard pronunciation, northern dialect as the basic dialect, and typical modern vernacular writings 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 development of reform and opening up and 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 popularizing Putonghua is an important content of quality education in schools at all levels. Popularizing Putonghua is conducive to implementing the strategic policy of education facing modernization, the world and the future, to carrying forward the excellent traditional culture and patriotism of the motherland and to strengthening the construction of socialist spiritual civilization.

the level of information technology is one of the symbols to measure the level of national science and technology. Language is the most important information carrier, and the standardization of language and characters is a prerequisite for improving the level of Chinese information processing. Popularizing Putonghua and implementing the Chinese Pinyin Scheme are conducive to promoting the development and application of Chinese information processing technology.

2. Legal basis for promoting Putonghua

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

article 3 of the law of the people's Republic of China on the common spoken and written language stipulates: "the state promotes putonghua and practices standardized Chinese characters." Article 4 stipulates: "Citizens have the right to learn and use the spoken and written language 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 spoken and written language should be conducive to safeguarding national sovereignty and national dignity, to national unity and national unity, and to the construction of socialist material civilization and spiritual civilization." Article 9 stipulates: "State organs use Putonghua and standardized Chinese characters as official language." Article 11 stipulates: "Schools and other educational institutions use Putonghua and standardized Chinese characters as the basic teaching language." 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: "Advocate the public service industry to use Putonghua as the service language." Article 14 stipulates that radio, film and television shall use the national common language as the basic language. Article 18 stipulates: "The Chinese Pinyin Scheme is used as a spelling and phonetic notation tool for the national common language." "Primary education should be taught in Chinese Pinyin." Article 19 stipulates: "Where Putonghua is the working language, the staff should have the ability to speak Putonghua. The level of Putonghua of announcers, program hosts, film and television drama actors, teachers and staff of state organs who use Putonghua as their working language shall meet the grade standards stipulated by the state respectively; For those who have not yet reached the national standard of Putonghua, they will be trained separately. " Article 21 stipulates: "Teaching Chinese as a foreign language should teach Putonghua and standardize Chinese characters."

Article 37 of the Law of the People's Republic of China on Regional Ethnic Autonomy stipulates: "Schools that mainly recruit ethnic minority students should use textbooks in ethnic minority languages and give lectures in ethnic minority languages when conditions permit; Chinese language courses are set up in senior primary schools or middle schools to promote Mandarin, which is commonly used in the whole 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, 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 shall promote the use of Putonghua and standardized characters commonly used throughout the country in teaching."

Article 6 of the Compulsory Education Law of the People's Republic of China 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 the People's Republic of China stipulates: "Schools that implement compulsory education should promote the use of Putonghua, which is commonly used throughout the country, in education, teaching and various activities. Mandarin should be used in education, teaching and various 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 which is commonly used throughout the country."

article 14 of the regulations on administrative work in ethnic townships: "primary and secondary schools in ethnic townships can use the spoken and written languages commonly used by local ethnic minorities to teach, and at the same time, promote putonghua commonly used throughout the country."

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

3. Policies and policies for promoting Putonghua

In order to meet the needs of reform and opening up, economic construction and social development, in 1986, the state listed the promotion of Putonghua as the primary task of language and writing work in the new period. In 192, the policy for promoting Putonghua was changed from "vigorously promoting, focusing on promoting and gradually popularizing" to "vigorously promoting, actively popularizing and gradually improving", in order to strengthen government behavior and expand the scope of popularization. Practice has proved that this policy meets the practical needs and plays an important guiding role in promoting Putonghua throughout the country.

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

the 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 use minority languages to teach Chinese courses should teach Mandarin. When Chinese is needed in ethnic autonomous areas and ethnic autonomous areas, Putonghua should be promoted and used.

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

4. Current ideas and requirements for promoting Putonghua

The promotion of Putonghua 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 region capitals, 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 drive the whole country.

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 who have reached the standard of 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 the school work schedule and routine 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 and constantly improve their Putonghua level. Party and government organs should set an example in promoting Putonghua, and urge and drive the whole society to popularize Putonghua. Third, audio media such as radio, film and television should use Putonghua as the basic language, and advocate Putonghua as the service language for businesses, tourism, posts and telecommunications, transportation, railways, civil aviation, finance, health and other industries, and staff should strive to improve their Putonghua level. 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 development and publication of language and writing standards to meet the needs of society.

5. The objectives and basic measures of promoting Putonghua in the new century

The objectives of promoting Putonghua in the new century are: before 2111, Putonghua will be initially popularized nationwide, the dialect gap in communication will be basically eliminated, and citizens with secondary education or above will have the ability to apply 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 41 to 51 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.

The basic measures of Putonghua promotion are target management, quantitative evaluation, Putonghua proficiency test and publicity and education centered on Putonghua Promotion Week, and administrative management is constantly strengthened, and it is gradually institutionalized, standardized and scientific.

"target management and quantitative evaluation" is a scientific management method for departments and regions to popularize Putonghua. Since the Eighth Five-Year Plan, the series of evaluation and guidance standards for popularizing Putonghua for normal colleges, urban primary and secondary schools and vocational middle schools has played an important guiding role in promoting the popularization of Putonghua in schools. Putonghua was initially popularized in municipalities directly under the central government, provincial capitals, autonomous region capitals and cities under separate state planning around 2112, in cities where administrative offices of provinces and regions (prefectures and leagues) are located around 2115, and in towns where county-level governments are located before 2111.

"Putonghua Proficiency Test" is to evaluate an individual's mastery of Putonghua rules according to "Putonghua Proficiency Test Grade Standard" and test outline issued by the State Language Committee.