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use, management and supervision of the national common spoken and written language. All citizens have the right to learn and use the standard spoken and written
Chinese language, and the State provides citizens with the conditions for it. The law also stipulates that the use of the national common spoken and written language should be conducive to the upholding of state sovereignty and national dignity, to unification of the country and unity among all ethnic groups, and to socialist material progress and ethical progress.
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