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“Promoting Mandarin doesn't mean the authorities will get rid of local dialects.”
Chen Zhangtai
“It (the promotion of Mandarin) aims to ensure national cohesion and facilitate communication for people from different regions.”
“Most Chinese could only speak one local dialect before 1949 when New China was founded. More and more people are 'bilingual' nowadays, as they can speak both Mandarin and a dialect or a language of an ethnic minority.”
