CHINA / SOCIETY
By Global Times Published: Jan 20, 2021 10:48 PM
Children walk on a newly-built iron-chain bridge in Wuying Village, a remote village inhabited by the Miao ethnic group on the border between south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and southwest China's Guizhou Province, Dec. 31, 2020. Photo: XinhuaSome local regulations that allow ethnic schools to use ethnic languages in teaching are inconsistent with Chinese Constitution's order to promote Putonghua in the country, a senior Chinese lawmaker said on Wednesday.
There are local regulations stipulating that schools of some ethnic groups should use the spoken and written languages of their own ethnic groups or languages commonly used by the groups, while other local regulations state that capable ethnic schools could use Han Chinese language in teaching some of their courses, Shen Chunyao, director at the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, said in a report, thepaper.cn reported.