China News Service, June 2nd "As of the end of 2019, the number of people participating in the Putonghua proficiency test in my country has reached 88.293 million." Xu Xiaoping, director of the Department of Language and Language Application Management of the Ministry of Education, pointed out on the 2nd.
Data map: Ministry of Education. China News reporter Fu Yushe
On the 2nd, the Ministry of Education held a press conference, Xu Xiaoping made the above statement when introducing the development status and work progress of the Chinese language and writing career in 2019.
Xu Xiaoping pointed out that winning the tough battle against poverty is a major strategic task for the party and the country. In recent years, under the unified deployment of the Party Group of the Ministry of Education and the State Language Commission, the language and writing system has actively acted, vigorously implemented actions to promote poverty alleviation, and made active efforts to win the battle against poverty. "In 2019, we will unify the strengths of all parties and bring together the common forces. An inter-ministerial coordination group composed of 25 national language committee members has been established."
"We have strengthened the Putonghua education for children in poverty-stricken areas, and jointly carried out the "Preschool Learning Putonghua" action with the Poverty Alleviation Office of the State Council to stop the intergenerational transmission of poverty. Organized counterparts in six eastern provinces such as Beijing and Zhejiang to support the "three districts and three states" Activity." Xu Xiaoping said.
The second is to carry out Mandarin training for key populations. To guide and promote the development of national language skills for minority teachers and rural teachers in central and western provinces. Promote local, especially the "three districts and three states" to carry out Mandarin training for young and middle-aged farmers and herdsmen and grassroots cadres among the poor people who have established archives, and combine vocational education and skill training to enhance the motivation of young and middle-aged farmers and herdsmen to learn Mandarin , Initiative. According to statistics, in 2019, 123,000 central and western provinces trained teachers of 463,000 person-times, 1.956 million young farmers and herdsmen, and 213,000 grass-roots cadres.
The third is to build Mandarin learning resources. Organized the preparation of "365 phrases for children's Mandarin", and developed 94 sets of micro-courses in "1000 sentences for Mandarin", constantly enriching the learning resources on the "language poverty alleviation" APP.
Fourth, strengthen language poverty alleviation research. The "Chinese Language Poverty Alleviation and Human Poverty Reduction Forum" was held and the "Language Poverty Alleviation Declaration" was issued. Many colleges and scientific research institutions actively carry out theoretical and practical research on language poverty alleviation.
Fifth, it is coordinated from top to bottom and promoted together. Incorporate the situation of promoting poverty alleviation in poverty-stricken areas in ethnic areas into the index system of the provincial people's government's evaluation of fulfilling educational responsibilities in 2019 ". All localities have formulated a mission statement and road map to promote poverty alleviation and tackling the difficulties, taking various measures to promote the work and make positive progress.
In terms of vigorously promoting the popularization of the national language and characters, Xu Xiaoping introduced that the promotion and popularization of the national language and characters is a very important task for our country's language cause. "In 2019, we will continue to implement the national key language popularization project in depth." One is to comprehensively strengthen the national language and language education at all levels and schools, guide local schools to achieve the standard construction of language and language work, and cooperate with the primary and secondary schools to compile textbooks Promote the use and strengthen the training of teachers in national areas to improve their ability to use common languages.
The second is to launch a series of activities for the 22nd National Promotion Week. "We have further tilted the focus of our work to the grassroots, counties, townships, and towns, and supported the "three districts and three states" in the central and western regions and 60 counties to carry out promotion activities to the countryside, and various promotional activities have been carried out in various places.
The third is to carry out a national survey on the popularity of Mandarin in 2019. Collecting 990,000 sample data from 2273 counties across the country provides data support for policy research. The completion of the 9.264 million person-time Putonghua proficiency test, 393,300 person-time minority level proficiency test, and 37,800 person-time Chinese character application level test. As of the end of 2019, the number of people participating in the Putonghua proficiency test in my country reached 88.293 million.
Fourth, the first batch of 60 national language promotion bases, such as Peking University, were identified by the Ministry of Education and the State Language Commission. This year the base has played an active role. During the epidemic situation, the bases actively provided language emergency services, carried out a series of activities of "unity against the epidemic", exerted the power of language, boosted confidence in anti-epidemic and united anti-epidemic spirit. It also organized 50 college bases, counterparts 5,200 ethnic minority teachers and rural teachers in 52 uncapped poverty-stricken counties, and carried out a three-month online demonstration training on the improvement of national language and literacy skills.
Xu Xiaoping said that in terms of inheriting and promoting China's excellent language and culture, first, a series of activities to commemorate the 120th anniversary of the discovery of Oracle was held. "We have promoted the scientific protection of language resources and the application of ancient script research, and over-planned the completion of the first phase of China's language resource protection project."
The second is to solidly promote the Chinese classic recitation project. "We continue to work with the Central Radio and Television Station to build the second phase of the "Chinese and Chinese Demonstration and Reading Library for Primary and Secondary Schools" project to create a sound version of the Chinese textbook. Strengthen the special teacher training for classical recitation lectures, and more than 10,000 Chinese and elementary school teachers have been trained. "
The third is to promote the interpretation, translation and dissemination of Chinese ideological and cultural terms. Published the 7th series of "Chinese Ideological and Cultural Terms", held an international seminar on Chinese Ideological and Cultural Communication, and introduced Chinese Ideological and Cultural Terms on the "Learning Power" APP.
Xu Xiaoping pointed out that in strengthening the standardization, standardization and informatization of the language, the first was to release the eighth batch of the Chinese standard translation of foreign language words in the "Chinese Finger Alphabet Program" and "China Tongyun", and "Common Education Common Vocabulary (Draft)" ", the Russian version and the Japanese version of the "Public Service Field Translation Guide" and other normative standards.
The second is the successful launch of the global Chinese learning platform, the Beijing Winter Olympics project knowledge map resource and question and answer system and other language and text informatization projects to provide services for Chinese international education and the Beijing Winter Olympics.
The third is to strengthen scientific research support, focusing on major national strategies such as poverty alleviation, the “Belt and Road Initiative”, the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and rural revitalization. It has established 93 annual scientific research projects and produced more than 700 scientific research achievements such as monographs and political advisory reports.
In terms of continuously deepening the communication and cooperation of languages and words, Xu Xiaoping also mentioned that one is to deepen the communication and cooperation between the mainland and Hong Kong, Macao, the mainland and Taiwan. Organize teachers and students from mainland universities to go to Hong Kong and Macao to carry out the exchange of Chinese classics reading performances. Held Mandarin training classes for teachers of primary and secondary schools in Hong Kong, Macao, and a summer camp for language and cultural exchanges among middle school students from Guangdong, Hong Kong, Macao, and both sides of the strait. In response to the needs of Macao, we assisted in the preparation of textbooks for the study of Mandarin in primary and secondary schools in Macao, and cooperated with relevant institutions in Hong Kong and Macao to carry out Putonghua proficiency tests.
The second is to actively expand international exchanges and cooperation in languages. The first International Chinese Education Conference was held, and more than 1,000 Chinese and foreign representatives from more than 160 countries and regions participated. Organized the first overseas Chinese teacher recitation lecture training activity. Under the framework of high-level humanities exchanges between China and foreign countries, strengthen bilateral exchanges and cooperation with Russian, English, French, German and other countries. Promote the overseas publication of the "Chinese Language Life Report".
Xu Xiaoping also introduced that in promoting the modernization of the governance system and governance capabilities of language and word work, one is to strengthen career planning. This year is a very important and extraordinary year in the history of the party and the country, and it is also the 20th anniversary of the implementation of the national language law. Therefore, from the second half of 2019, we began to plan the key work of this year, prepare to hold a national language and text conference, start The preparation and investigation of the "14th Five-Year Plan" development plan for the language industry.
The second is that all member units of the State Language Commission give full play to their functions and actively fulfill their duties in language and writing. Their work is full of character and effectiveness. Third, various localities have carried out a variety of language and text work in combination with key tasks.