An expert from the State Language Commission collects samples of the dialect in Luanping county, Hebei province. About 1 billion people in China speak Putonghua, the national, standardized form of ...

Knowing Putonghua is almost as important as knowing English when it comes to finding work and being promoted in Hong Kong, a study has found. As such, managers at most companies recently said they ...

A man takes a photo of the Nanjing Dialect and Slang Wall in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, October 29, 2010. An old man and his grandson have travelled from southern China to visit the nation's capital.

The Standing Committee on Language Education and Research yesterday endorsed a pilot scheme to promote the use of Putonghua in the teaching of Chinese language subjects in schools. Participating ...

The number of schools teaching classes in Putonghua has dropped slightly – which indicates a trend for more educators to scrap the practice, a cultural group said ­yesterday. The drop was mainly ...

Putonghua, which literally means, the common language of China, is becoming more common in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), as the HKSAR government launched its first Putonghua ...

There was a saying around 1997 that you do not have to learn Putonghua as long as you do not cross the Lo Wu Bridge and enter Chinese mainland territory. Nowadays, you may hear it in the crowded ...

BEIJING, Dec. 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Chinese language has made its formal entry onto the international language stage. No longer is it the preserve of fogey old professors keen to unravel the ...

A local think tank announced on Monday that it has rolled out a project aimed at enhancing the Putonghua level of primary and secondary students through the use of an AI-powered mobile app and offline ...

Putonghua is an official language for conducting court proceedings, along with English and Cantonese, the Judiciary has confirmed after a barrister's request to cross-examine a witness in Putonghua ...

Diumanpark pointed out that Putonghua is just one of the Chinese Languages. He criticized the Hong Kong government language policy for equalizing Putonghua as “The” Chinese languages and killing all ...