Frontmatter -- Scientific protection of ethnic languages -- Contents -- Part I. Language work -- 1. Outline of the National Mid- and Long-term Reform and Development Plan on Spoken and Written Languages (2012-2020) -- 2 Twelfth Five-year Research Plan of the State Language Commission -- 3. Confucius Institutes Development Plan (2012-2020) -- 4. Language application management -- 5. Language and information management -- 6. To commemorate the 10th anniversary of the promulgation of the National Law of Standard Spoken and Written Language -- 7. Raise the language awareness of society -- Part II. Special research -- 8. International dissemination of the Chinese language -- 9. The United Nations Chinese Language Day -- 10. China's foreign language capacity -- 11. The economic value of language in Nanjing's service industry -- 12. Society-oriented language tests -- 13. Protection of the intellectual property rights of digital Chinese fonts -- 14. Decline and protection of the mother tongues of the northern ethnic groups -- 15. Cross-border ethnic minority languages -- 16. Survey on the use of Braille -- 17. Language situation of foreign residents in Xiaobei Road, Guangzhou -- 18. Language use of the military -- Part III. Language focuses -- 19. Dialects protection debate -- 20. A heated debate on lettered expressions in Chinese dictionaries -- 21. Microblogging and its language -- 22. Place-renaming fever -- 23. Changes and usage of languages in different societal domains in Hong Kong -- 24. Survey on the use of Putonghua in Macau -- 25. Language situation in China Taiwan -- 26. Analysis of the use of language through the eighth population census of China Taiwan -- 27. Popular words and phrases -- 28. New words and phrases in 2011-2012, and a comprehensive survey of new words and phrases in 2006-2010 -- Appendix -- Memorabilia of language work in 2011 -- Memorabilia of language work in 2012 -- Notice on further regulating the use of ethnic minority languages and Chinese -- Contents (Chinese version 2013) -- Contents (Chinese version 2012) -- Editorial Teams of the English Edition -- Index