{"id":270,"date":"2006-02-03T12:48:46","date_gmt":"2006-02-03T04:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/?p=270"},"modified":"2006-02-03T12:48:46","modified_gmt":"2006-02-03T04:48:46","slug":"hunan-plans-law-requiring-mandarin-of-civil-servants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2006\/hunan-plans-law-requiring-mandarin-of-civil-servants\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunan plans law requiring Mandarin of civil servants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s Hunan Province plans to introduce a law that would require all civil servants to speak Mandarin. Under this law, those who fail examinations in Mandarin would not be promoted and could even be &#8220;removed from their posts.&#8221; (Demoted? Fired?) <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If the law is approved, the province will be the first to enforce such a law. The law was planned after the authorities received many complaints about civil servants with poor language skills.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>source: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2006-01\/13\/content_4047084.htm\">Civil servants urged to brush up Mandarin<\/a>, <i>China Daily<\/i><i>, January 13, 2006<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s Hunan Province plans to introduce a law that would require all civil servants to speak Mandarin. Under this law, those who fail examinations in Mandarin would not be promoted and could even be &#8220;removed from their posts.&#8221; (Demoted? Fired?) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2006\/hunan-plans-law-requiring-mandarin-of-civil-servants\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12,28,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-chinese","category-languages","category-mandarin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}