XIN TANG (New China) - Pinyin.info

3 KIN TANG: NEW CHINAcode. A contest held on June 14, 1984, utilizing such asystem, achieved a record output of 116.7 characters perminute automatically.4. How to arrange Chinese characters In serial order hasalways posed a difficult problem. The new, efficient, andconvenient way Is to arrange the characters according totheir sound In Pinyin alphabet order. This new serial orderhas recently been applied to the Greater Encvclopaedla il1Cb1na (80 volumes) and other Important publications.5. Pinyin Is now not only the national standard of China,but also the International standard adopted by ISO and UN fortranscribing Chinese. But Pinyin Is stili not considered asecond legal written language, only an· auxiliary to Chinesecharacters.Beginning from the late Qing dynasty thelanguage Refonn Movement started in China, with theaim of modernizing Chinese language, both spoken andwritten. After the revolution of 1911. the earlyBeijing Government of the Republic of China promotedthe National Language (6uoyu). changed the style ofwriting from classical to vernacular, and in 1918adopted the Sound-Notating Symbols in characterfonn (Zhuyin Fuhao). In 1928 the NationalistGovemment in Nanking adopted the National languageRomanization (Guoyu Romazi).ln 1958 the govemmentof the People's Republic of China summarized theLanguage Refonn Movement as consisting of threemain tasks: 1. the simplification of the Chinesecharacters, 2. the popularization of the CommonSpeech (Putonghua), and 3. the promotion of therevised Chinese romanization caned Pinyin (HanyuPinyin Fang·an). Of these three, romanization is themost crucial task.After the interruption caused by the so-caned·ten years' calamity· (Cultural Revolution. 1966-1916). the Committee for Language Refonn wasrestored and reorganized. A new Research Institute of