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China says 85% of citizens will use Mandarin by 2025

December 2, 2021;

By Associated Press, Published in The Washington Post – 1 December 2021 BEIJING — China is launching an aggressive campaign to promote Mandarin, saying 85% of its citizens will use the national language by 2025. The move appears to put threatened Chinese regional dialects such as Cantonese and Hokkien under even greater pressure, along with…

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