China has experienced hundreds of years of internal and external troubles, and its country is weak and its people are poor. China has been an agricultural country for thousands of years, with more than 80% of the population in rural areas, while more than half of the population in China is illiterate and semi-illiterate. To develop culture and build a country on this basis, literacy has become an important historical task.
At that time, the purpose of simplifying Chinese characters was to make hundreds of millions of people literate as soon as possible, improve the speed of using Chinese characters, improve the education level and facilitate students' study at school. Only on this basis can they learn science and technology and build a rich and powerful country.
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Simplified Chinese characters are a standard way of writing in modern Chinese, as opposed to traditional Chinese characters. Simplified Chinese is mainly composed of inherited characters and simplified characters which were implemented in Chinese mainland by the people of China and the government of China after 1960s.
At present, Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Chinese communities in Chinese mainland, Malaysia, Singapore and some countries in Southeast Asia. In the past, simplified Chinese and traditional Chinese coexisted in various documents of the United Nations. However, People's Republic of China (PRC) replaced the authorities of Taiwan Province Province. After 197 1 returned to the United Nations, Simplified Chinese became one of the six official languages of the United Nations.
Before the popularization of simplified Chinese characters, traditional Chinese characters used to be the mainstream of Chinese characters in overseas Chinese circles. Traditional Chinese characters are used in commercial posters, Chinese media and Chinese teaching in Chinatown. Global Times reported that before Chinese mainland's reform and opening up, Chinese teaching in the United States continued the tradition of traditional Chinese characters.
After the reform and opening up, the first batch of mainland doctors studying in the United States graduated, and they began to write Chinese textbooks in simplified Chinese characters. More than 2,300 high schools in the United States have offered Chinese "elective courses", half of which have adopted simplified characters. Because the mainland is in a strong position in international communication, foreigners have basically used simplified characters in learning Chinese for half a century, especially in the past 30 years.
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