Bilingual skills needed for jobs
Source: Xinhua |
May 2, 2010, Sunday
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CANDIDATES for government jobs in Xinjiang must be able to communicate in the local language as well as Chinese under a new rule.
The bilingual regulation was adopted by the regional government last week, said Kang Tingfeng, a spokesman for Xinjiang's human resources department.
The regulation will enable officials to better serve the people, encourage the learning of languages, and promote exchanges between people of different ethnic groups, he said.
Ethnic Han candidates will have to be able to talk with ethnic minorities in their language. Similarly, ethnic minority candidates must be able to read and write simple Chinese.
A candidate who passes the job test and interview but who fails to meet the language requirements will be required to attend a three-month language training program, the regulation says.
After training, the candidate's language abilities will be tested again. If the candidate fails the test again, there will be another opportunity to study in the following year's program. A third failure leads to rejection.
The regional government is also urging officials, especially grassroots officials, to become bilingual.
Government employees hired in the past two years are required to join language training programs and bilingual skills have been a prerequisite for government jobs in the Xinjiang cities of Kashgar and Hotan for years.
The regulation is significant in Xinjiang, where more than 12 million of its 20 million population speak 13 ethnic languages, said Ma Pinyan of Xinjiang's Academy of Social Sciences.
The bilingual regulation was adopted by the regional government last week, said Kang Tingfeng, a spokesman for Xinjiang's human resources department.
The regulation will enable officials to better serve the people, encourage the learning of languages, and promote exchanges between people of different ethnic groups, he said.
Ethnic Han candidates will have to be able to talk with ethnic minorities in their language. Similarly, ethnic minority candidates must be able to read and write simple Chinese.
A candidate who passes the job test and interview but who fails to meet the language requirements will be required to attend a three-month language training program, the regulation says.
After training, the candidate's language abilities will be tested again. If the candidate fails the test again, there will be another opportunity to study in the following year's program. A third failure leads to rejection.
The regional government is also urging officials, especially grassroots officials, to become bilingual.
Government employees hired in the past two years are required to join language training programs and bilingual skills have been a prerequisite for government jobs in the Xinjiang cities of Kashgar and Hotan for years.
The regulation is significant in Xinjiang, where more than 12 million of its 20 million population speak 13 ethnic languages, said Ma Pinyan of Xinjiang's Academy of Social Sciences.
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