An expert from the State Language Commission collects samples of the dialect in Luanping county, Hebei province. About 1 billion people in China speak Putonghua, the national, standardized form of ...

Knowing Putonghua is almost as important as knowing English when it comes to finding work and being promoted in Hong Kong, a study has found. As such, managers at most companies recently said they ...

George Tsang, in his letter (“Time to change Hong Kong’s language policy so city can succeed”, August 5), discusses language policy in education after the handover. One issue he looked at was the ...

A teacher is teaching Putonghua to students of the Miao ethnic group in a village in South China's Hainan Province in November 2017. Photo: VCG During China's Putonghua promotion week, which falls on ...

Forty schools will begin to employ Putonghua as the medium of instruction in Chinese language lessons should a HK$200 million pilot scheme to promote the national language and enhance teaching ...

The number of schools teaching classes in Putonghua has dropped slightly – which indicates a trend for more educators to scrap the practice, a cultural group said ­yesterday. The drop was mainly ...

The Chinese language has made its formal entry onto the international language stage. No longer is it the preserve of fogey old professors keen to unravel the mysteries of a 5,000-year-old ...

A local think tank announced on Monday that it has rolled out a project aimed at enhancing the Putonghua level of primary and secondary students through the use of an AI-powered mobile app and offline ...

People from other parts of China often complain that visiting Shanghai is like arriving in a strange city. The local dialect, which is so different from putonghua, the country's national tongue, can ...

Hong Kong’s mother tongue is under threat. Cantonese may be centuries old but how much longer can it sustain the pressure from China to pick up Putonghua? By Arthur Tam and Anna Cummins. Additional ...

When Hong Kong was handed back from the UK to China in 1997, only a quarter of the population spoke any Mandarin. Now, two decades later, that figure has nearly doubled. But even as people get better ...