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[quote=ZOEY,269768]For Chinese-beginners, Pinyin is very helpful for you to access the complicated Chinese language. Do you know about anything about the Chinese Pinyin. It has already has history of 50 years. A  piece of news from Xinhua News Agency says that Pinyin celebrates the 50th  birthday today.  Here is a full text about the report on Pinyin: 
(Source: Xinhua News Agency February 11, 2008)

Hanyu Pinyin, or the Chinese phonetic system, will celebrate its 50th anniversary on Monday (Feb. 11). One billion Chinese have used it to learn mandarin since the first edition of pinyin was issued in 1958.

"Pinyin is useful. It helps us to learn Chinese characters. Thanks to pinyin, we learnt how to read," 92-year-old Chen Douxiang from Wanrong County, northern Shanxi Province, still remembered the pinyin poem she learned 50 years ago.

The first edition of Pinyin was adopted at the Fifth Session of the First National People's Congress on Feb. 11, 1958. It was then introduced to primary schools, and used to improve the literacy rate among adults. By the end of 1959, two-thirds of residents in Wanrong County had learnt Mandarin using Pinyin.

"About one billion Chinese citizens have mastered pinyin, which plays an important role in both Chinese language education and international communication," said Wang Dengfeng, vice-chairman of the National Language Committee and director of language department of the Education Ministry.

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