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How to regulate the proficiency test of Putonghua and Chinese character use?
  • Update:2007-04-19 15:46

Shanghai is an international metropolis attracting the attention of people all over the world, it has made painstaking and effective exploration and effort in the aspect of implementing the“National Law on the Standard Language and Script”and made certain achievements, in the evaluation by Ministry of Education and National Language Committee, Shanghai is evaluated as a reach-standard city in“the initial popularization of Putonghua, basic norms of social use of the Chinese character”, there is no obvious linguistic misunderstanding and linguistic barrier in the communication among civics, but because of various reasons, many problems remain, proficiency test is an important measure to implement the“double promotion”guideline and fulfill the“National Law on the Standard Language and Script”, and it must be constantly reinforced. Moreover, according to requirements on the transformation of government functions and the division of administration and events, as a governmental department, the municipal Language Committee is not supposed to directly administer the test, and the related test work must be carried out by a third party specialized institution, then under the authorization of related municipal department, Shanghai Putonghua Test was instituted in 2002, which mainly assumes the work of organizing the proficiency test of language and character use; it is an institution with independent legal person qualifications. The“Regulations for Implementation”clarifies the nature and tasks of the institution in the form of legal provisions:“the city institutes specialized institution for the proficiency test of Putonghua and Chinese character use, which is specifically in charge of the work related to Putonghua and Chinese character use proficiency test.