February 5, 2015

POLITICAL NEWS

Han cadres required to learn Tibetan language

January 12, 2015

Following Chinese President Xi Jinping’s instruction, at a conference on ethnic work in September 2014, requiring that in ethnic regions all ethnic minority cadres should learn Mandarin and Han cadres should learn ethnic languages, the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) has directed that mastery of the Tibetan language will become a requirement for non-native cadres in the TAR. Xi Jinping had said that the language skill should become a “requirement” for cadres. He said: “One cannot serve the local people well if one cannot speak the local language.” [Source]