[3] In August 1949, prior to the proclamation of the People's Republic of China, Wu Yuzhang wrote a letter to Mao Zedong, proposing that it was necessary to promptly carry out language reform in order to eliminate illiteracy.
On January 31, 1956, the Chinese Character Simplification Scheme was officially announced by People's Daily.
[11] On June 4, 2013, the List of Commonly Used Standard Chinese Characters was issued by the SLC and MoE.
It is sponsored by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China and run by the Research Institute of Language Application (语言文字应用研究所).
[15] The readers of Applied Linguistics include Chinese language researchers and teachers, college students, secretarial workers, etc.