Mandarin can help you go further, and dialects will always help us find our way home. "Tian Lixin, Director of the Language and Text Information Management Department of the Ministry of Education of China, said in Anyang, Henan on the 16th that the China Language Resource Protection Project has completed the investigation and protection of more than 1700 survey points nationwide. The Chinese Ministry of Education held a press conference on the same day in the Xuanwen Hall of the Chinese Language Museum, introducing the progress of China's inheritance and development of excellent Chinese language and culture. Tian Lixin stated that promoting the development and utilization of Chinese dialects and minority language resources is an important part of inheriting and developing excellent Chinese language and culture. The Ministry of Education of China and the National Language and Writing Commission of China launched the China Language Resource Protection Project in 2015, which aims to record and preserve Chinese language resources in a multimodal, holographic, and standardized manner, so that the Chinese language and writing spanning thousands of years can be forever preserved and passed down to future generations. She introduced that the first phase of the project has completed the survey and protection of over 1700 survey points in all provinces of China, covering more than 120 languages and dialects in China, and has built the world's largest language resource library. It is understood that the Ministry of Education, the National Language Commission, and relevant departments have launched the implementation of the Ancient Chinese Characters and the Inheritance and Development Project of Chinese Civilization, comprehensively and systematically conducting research on ancient Chinese characters such as oracle bone inscriptions and golden inscriptions. As of now, the project has integrated national advantages to build a collaborative research and innovation platform, deeply exploring and interpreting the historical ideas and cultural values of ancient Chinese characters. In the first batch, a total of 17 universities and cultural and museum units have been selected, and more than 420 experts and scholars have participated in the construction of the project, Deployed nearly 200 key research projects and produced a series of important results. In addition, Tian Lixin introduced that the Ministry of Education and the National Language Commission launched the dissemination project of Chinese ideological and cultural terms in 2014. As of now, more than 1100 ideological and cultural terms reflecting the core and essence of the Chinese nation's discourse system have been sorted out, and more than 170 terminology series books such as "Chinese Ideological and Cultural Terms" have been published, forming a three-dimensional product system of "books+databases". International copyright cooperation in 38 languages has been carried out with 36 countries and regions along the "the Belt and Road", and the project achievements have been collected by more than 150 well-known libraries around the world. (New News Agency)