Frontmatter -- Contents -- Editorial Teams of the English Edition -- Introduction. 1 The language situation in China: 2014 -- Part I Special report -- 2 One decade of The Language Situation in China -- 3 Ten years of language monitoring and research in China -- Part II Special focuses -- 4 Promoting mutual enhancement of language ability, furthering human development and social progress - Address at the opening ceremony of the International Conference on Language -- 5 Enhancing language ability and education for the 21st century - Address at the opening ceremony of the International Conference on Language -- 6 Modern interpretations of language functions: cross-civilizational dialogue, narrowing divides, and building new humanism - Address at the plenary session of the International Conference on Language -- 7 Enhancing language ability and promoting civilizational exchanges - Address at the plenary session of the International Conference on Language -- 8 Making greater contributions to the enhancement of humanity's language ability and the progress of human civilization - Address at the closing ceremony of the International Conference on Language -- 9 Conclusions of the International Conference on Language (Suzhou Conclusions) (June 6, 2014, Suzhou, China) -- Part III Special fields -- 10 Diverse and colorful National Reading -- 11 Overview of recent writing tasks on the Senior Secondary Entrance Examination -- 12 Survey of the state of practical writing studies among Nanjing primary school students -- 13 Survey of the state of language among new and earlier rural migrant workers -- 14 The state of banking language services -- 15 Survey of the state of research and use of minority sign languages -- 16 Survey of sign language comprehension in the CCTV program Focus On -- 17 Survey of language in public service announcements in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou -- 18 Survey of language use in white and color papers -- 19 Report on language phenomena on the Chinese Internet -- 20 State of development of the Confucius Institutes -- 21 State of development of overseas Chinese education -- Part IV Hot topics -- 22 Galvanizing reforms to foreign languages on the college entrance examination -- 23 Internet language norms incite heated debate -- 24 English slang with "Chinese intonation" -- Part V Words and passages -- 25 Characters and words of 2014 as mementos of history -- 26 Hot topics in society among the neologisms of 2014 -- 27 China and the world in the popular phrases of 2014 -- 28 The grassroots diversity of Internet slang in 2014 -- 29 The powerful impact of shilian -- 30 Words that have experienced "expressional" changes in recent years -- Part VI Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan -- 31 Language education in Hong Kong primary and secondary schools -- 32 The media of instruction at institutions of higher education in Macau -- 33 The state of language life in Taiwan (2014) -- Appendices -- I Language-related content in the official documents of other national ministries and commissions -- II Recommended Chinese translations of foreign-language terms (batches 1-3) -- III The first batch of terms for the "Project for the Translation and Communication of Key Concepts in Chinese Culture and Thought" -- IV Chronology of major events in language life 2014 -- Index