Historical Events tagged with "simplification"
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Education & Academia
Major Publication of Character Simplification Scheme
December 20th, 1977 47 years ago
China’s foremost newspapers, the People’s Daily and Guangming Daily, published the full Second Chinese Character Simplification Scheme following State Council approval. This was the first time the scheme was made fully available to the public. The simplifications aimed to increase literacy rates and simplify written Chinese, addressing inefficiencies in language use.
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