Language rights of ethnic groups protected, official says
China DailyWhile promoting the use of standard spoken and written Chinese in ethnic-minority-inhabited areas, China has ensured that people's rights to learn and use languages of different ethnic groups are protected. Zhao Yong, deputy director of the National Ethnic Affairs Commission, on Wednesday dismissed as groundless the claim that promoting standard spoken and written Chinese in ethnic-minority-inhabited areas is a move to destroy ethnic-minority languages. People can learn and use their own languages freely," Zhao said at a news conference held by the Publicity Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China Central Committee on the progress made in work on ethnic affairs in the past decade. "We have focused on dealing with cases of discrimination against people from certain ethnic groups or areas," he said, "and the legitimate rights of people from all ethnic groups can now be better protected."
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