China Tibet Online
2015-06-04
Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan Province held a press conference regarding the implementation of the “Regulations on Standardizing Tibetan Language in Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture”, June 1st, 2015, Garze Daily reported.
The regulation aims to protect and promote Tibetan language learning, research, use, management and development; to standardize the Tibetan language, which marked a new stage in the development of the Tibetan language in Garze.
The “Regulations” were passed by the Sichuan Provincial People’s Congress in April 2015 and came into effect from June 1.
With a total of six chapters and 41 articles, the “Regulations” are mainly focused on research, use and management of the Tibetan language, and the building of the teams involved as well as their legal responsibilities.
The “Regulations” clearly define the specific standards in five aspects, stipulate the arrangement rules between the Tibetan language and the national common language, as well as the obligations related to the management of Tibetan language, outlining the supervisory responsibilities of the relevant functional departments.
The meeting urged all levels of the local government to further implement law-based management of the Tibetan language; to further encourage all ethnic groups to learn languages from each other; to further promote the standardization of the Tibetan language; and to help promote continued development of the Tibetan language.
