Over the past ten years of our language and words, it has provided strong support for national development

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, June 28 (Reporter Xu Zhuang) Created a unified model for promoting universal language in multi -language and multi -language countries; in -depth inheritance and promoting the outstanding language and culture of China; providing important support and guarantee for economic and social development; for Promoting the contribution of building a community of human destiny ... These development and achievements have been achieved by the cause of the language and words in my country for ten years.

Focusing on the reform and development of the language and literature industry since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Ministry of Education held a press conference on the 28th to introduce the above situation.

Zhou Wei, director of the Department of Language Application Management of the Ministry of Education: "In the past ten years, the popularization rate of Putonghua across the country has increased from 70%to 80.72%, the proportion of Chinese characters in the use of literacy population has exceeded 95%, and the illiterate rate has fallen to 2.67%. The awareness of the nation community, building a spiritual homeland for the Chinese nation, the participation of the great rejuvenation of various ethnic groups and the sharing of great achievements contribute. "

How to inherit ancient characters? How to promote classic culture? How to protect language resources? In the past ten years, my country has successively implemented the "Ancient Chinese Character and Chinese Civilization Inheritance Development Project", "Chinese Classic Reading Project", "Chinese Ideological and Cultural Terms", "Chinese Language Resources Protection Project", etc., to promote cultural self -confidence and more firmness, and a significant enhanced national cohesion.

"In the past ten years, the language industry has actively served the overall situation of national development and provided important support and guarantees for economic and social development." Said Tian Lixin, director of the Department of Language and Information Management of the Ministry of Education.

In addition to serving the "Belt and Road" construction and regional development strategies, and providing major activities such as successful hosting the Beijing Winter Olympics, language work also helps more and more people to get out of the mountains, go to the society, and achieve employment, poverty alleviation and get rich.

Taking Guangxi as an example, Liu Youyi, director of the Education Department of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, said that as of the end of 2020, 83.03%of the poverty alleviation population in the district could use Mandarin to perform daily exchanges, which basically eliminated the language barrier on the road of wealthy young peasants.

Language exchange and cooperation also contributed to promoting the establishment of a community of human destiny. According to statistics, as of the end of 2021, more than 180 countries and regions have carried out Chinese education, 76 countries have incorporated Chinese into the national education system. Foreign countries are studying the number of Chinese exceeding 25 million, and the cumulative number of Chinese people is nearly 200 million. The international status and influence of Chinese is significantly improved with the improvement of national comprehensive strength.

[Editor in charge: Zhou Chuqing]

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