Frontmatter -- Contents -- Editorial Teams of the English Edition -- Part I: Special report -- 1 Improving national language ability and serving the comprehensive construction of a moderately prosperous society -- 2 Promoting the lawful supervision and evaluation of spoken and written language work -- 3 Scientific research work of the State Language Commission in the "12th Five-Year" period -- Part II: Special focuses -- 4 Origin and significance of the Project for the Protection of Language Resources of China -- 5 Orientation, objectives, and tasks of the Project for the Protection of Language Resources of China -- 6 Strategies and methods for implementation of the Project for the Protection of Language Resources of China -- Part III: Language work -- 7 Work on spoken and written ethnic minority languages -- Part IV: Special fields -- 8 Survey of the state of rural language use in Hubei Province -- 9 The situation of "dialect culture entering the classroom" in three coastal locations -- 10 Survey of language use in regions inhabited by the Lahu and Mongolian ethnic groups -- 11 Survey of language use among Hong Kong, Macanese and Taiwanese college students at inland institutions of higher education -- 12 Survey of foreign language ability in the field of civil aviation -- 13 Issues with standards for language use in military documents -- 14 State of development of the Confucius Institutes (2015) -- 15 The state of development of Chinese language and culture education (2015) -- 16 Survey of the state of Chinese language education at institutions of higher education in four Central Asian countries -- 17 Publication of the third edition of Ciyuan (辞源) -- 18 An examination of literature and history textbooks in Manchukuo -- Part V: Hot topics -- 19 "Two-Child Policy" triggers a frenzied linguistic carnival -- 20 A "hot reaction" to the abbreviation of school names -- 21 Trending word lists for various sectors and industries -- Part VI: Words and passages -- 22 Writing the annals of the characters and words of the year, 2015 -- 23 Hot topics in society in the neologisms of 2015 -- 24 China and the world in the popular phrases of 2015 -- 25 The grassroots variety of online slang in 2015 -- 26 Comparative analysis of the use of alphabetic words in the media in 2015 and 2006 -- 27 The Internet+ in language life -- Part VII: Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan -- 28 The Chinese language arts curriculum in Hong Kong pre-primary education -- 29 The language associations of Macau -- 30 The state of language life in Taiwan (2015) -- Appendices -- 31 Chronicle of events in language life (2015) -- 32 Language-related content in the official documents of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, State Council and relevant ministries and commissions -- 33 Work on the standard spoken and written Chinese language -- Index