《中华人民共和国国家通用语言文字法》(下面简称《语言文字法》)已于2000年10月31日由中国第九届全国人大常委会第18次会议通过,并于2001年1月1日起施行。这是中国根据宪法制定的第一部关于语言文字方面的专项法律,它体现了中国的语言文字方针政策,科学地总结了新中国成立50多年来语言文字工作的成功经验,也标志着中国语言文字规范化、标准化工作正式步入法制轨道,进入一个新的发展时期。《语言文字法》的倡议始于上世纪90年代初。当时中国处于改革开放始期,社会语言 The “Law of the People’s Republic of China on General Language Writing” (hereinafter referred to as the “Language Law”) was adopted by the 18th meeting of the Ninth National People’s Congress Standing Committee on October 31, 2000 and passed on January 1, 2001 From the implementation. This is the first special law on language written by China under the Constitution. It embodies China’s principles of language and writing, scientifically sums up the successful experience of language work in the past 50 years since the founding of New China, and also marks the progress of the Chinese language Text standardization, standardization formally entered the legal track, entered a new period of development. The “language law” initiative began in the early 90s of last century. At that time, China was in the initial stage of reform and opening up, its social language