Standard Mandarin/Putonghua, another name of modern standard Chinese, is a common language with Beijing pronunciation as the standard pronunciation, northern Mandarin as the basic dialect and typical modern vernacular as the grammatical norm.
Chaozhou dialect, formerly called "Chaozhou dialect", is now generally called "Chaoshan dialect", also called Chaoshan dialect, which is called "Chaozhou dialect" for short. It is a branch of Minnan dialect, with Shantou dialect as the standard pronunciation. It is also one of the oldest and most special dialects in China. Min dialect, which is popular in eastern Guangdong, has a population of about100000. Together with overseas Chinese and compatriots from Hong Kong and Macao, the population exceeds 25 million.
As one of the working languages of the United Nations, Mandarin has become an important bridge for cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries and the first choice for foreigners to learn Chinese. By 20 15, 70% of the population in China has the ability to use Putonghua, and about 400 million people are limited to one-way communication. The Implementation Plan of the National Common Language Popularization Project plans to basically popularize the national common language in the whole country by 2020. Specifically, the average popularization rate of Putonghua in the whole country is over 80%.
Chaozhou dialect is distributed in Chaoshan area (Chaozhou, Jieyang, Shantou and Shanwei) along the eastern coast of Guangdong, Tangnan and huangliu town in Fengshun County of Meizhou City, and overseas Southeast Asian hipsters. Chaoshan dialect is rarely used in the border areas of Nanjing, Pinghe and Zhaoan counties in Zhangzhou. Chaozhou Town, Pingtung County, Taiwan Province, is the most concentrated place of Chaozhou government immigrants in Qing Dynasty, mainly from Changbin Township and Puning County of Raoping County, with a maximum of about 2,200 people. Workers in ports, railways, mines and state farms in Hainan Province all use Chaozhou dialect.