Changing Beijing’s road signs from English to Chinese has sparked heated debate – The Epoch Times

[The Epoch Times, December 02, 2023](Epoch Times reporter Xiao Lusheng reported) Highway signage in many places in mainland China is changing from Chinese and English to all Chinese. What has attracted the attention of netizens recently is that Beijing’s road signs are also being completely changed to Chinese.

In recent days, articles discussing Beijing’s replacement of Chinese-English signs with all-Chinese signs have appeared on the mainland’s Internet, claiming that “Beijing fired the first shot.”

For example, the NetEase account “Midnight Talk about the World” posted that the Beijing Municipal Transportation Department announced that all double-slogan signs will be replaced with Chinese signs to improve road safety and traffic efficiency.

This move by the authorities has aroused doubts among mainland netizens.

Happy and comfortable ed: “I can’t exchange it for more than a billion. It’s really a good deal to make a fortune.” The knowledgeable Chunfeng: “I remember Han Han exposed it before. The cost of a brand is 60,000 yuan. How much does it cost to change the brand this time? Please disclose it. one time.”

Physiotherapy expert: “We are going further and further down the road of being stuck in our own ways.”

Yuanshan LIX4: “Aren’t you afraid of making the world laugh out loud?” Yu Congjun8g: “No friends are here!”

Beijing media person Mr. He told Radio Free Asia that there are various signs that the CCP is trying to decouple from the English-speaking world. Not long ago, Xi and Biden failed to reach a consensus after their meeting, so they continued to turn to the left. “Previously, the English place names in subway stations were changed to Chinese pinyin, which had the same meaning. Now the street signs don’t even use Chinese pinyin. It has a strong meaning of breaking with the West.”

Mr. Guo, a Beijing resident, revealed that other areas outside Beijing are also gradually replacing highway directional signs. Ms. Tang, a Beijing resident, was outraged. She said that government officials sent their families to foreign countries, but talked to the people about cultural confidence and system confidence, and rejected Western language and culture: “Aren’t they making a fuss out of a molehill?” “Who do you want to show your English to?” “

Last year, the English names of Beijing subway stations were changed to Pinyin. At that time, many subway station signs and station signs across the country also used Pinyin in English. Netizens denounced it as “nefarious”. This year, Beijing citizens discovered that some signs in the Beijing subway had been changed from Chinese pinyin to English.

A reporter from The Epoch Times found that since November last year, articles have appeared on the mainland’s Internet discussing the CCP’s plan to replace highway signage nationwide, replacing Chinese and English with all Chinese.

Editor in charge: Ye Ziming#