Abstract
Long before the Chinese Communist Party came to power, it announced a commitment to reform the Chinese language, and followed it up over the years with various plans to unify the spoken language and transform the written language. Current policy has three components — to spread the use of a common vernacular (putonghua) based on the Peking dialect; to simplify the traditional script by eliminating obsolete, obscure and redundant characters, and reducing the number of strokes in many commonly used characters; and to promote the use of a phonetic alphabet (pinyin) with the goal of having it replace the Han characters eventually.
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