Legislative revisions aim to make PRC a monolingual monolith

8 months ago

(TibetanReview.net, Sep10’25) – China’s National People’s Congress (NPC), or parliament, has reviewed two legislative proposals on Sep 8 to ramp up a drive to promote further ethnic integration through the use of standard Chinese – both the spoken and written language – among minority groups. The aim appears to be to make the People’s Republic of China (PRC), with 55 recognized ethnic minority groups, a Mandarin-speaking monolith to achieve President Xi Jinping’s grand “unified national identity” design.

The revisions come amid ongoing international scrutiny of Beijing’s policies towards ethnic minorities, especially regarding Tibet and Xinjiang, where the ...

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