In 1986, the State Language Commission issued a list of 2,235 simplified Chinese characters as a way to standardize the written form of the language.

实际上，简化汉字是基于减少书写笔画这一目的而创造的。 为规范汉字书写形式，国家语言委员会曾于1986年发行过一部收录有2235个简化汉字的字典。

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CNS functions as: a state-level new agency spreading news worldwide, a database of information from global Chinese-language media, and an international news agency.

中新社担负的职能是：对外新闻报道的国家级通讯社，世界华文媒体信息总汇，国际性通讯社。

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The State provides citizens with the conditions for learning and using the standard spoken and written Chinese language.

国家为公民学习和使用国家通用语言文字提供条件。

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On May 16th Yang Rui, a well-known presenter for the English-language service of Chinese state television, expressed support for the campaign in an astonishing rant on his microblog.

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The state-run China Daily said in its Chinese language edition that the country had to learn to balance development with quality of life.

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Beijing has finally followed the script that was laid out provisionally by Chinese-language news reports over the course of recent months: it is shaking up the state-controlled telecom industry by knocking back the industry leader, China Mobile, while building up its weakest players.

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