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Guangzhou and Hong Kong simultaneously launched a campaign to support Cantonese language on August 1, 2010. Hong Kong participants march to the government headquarters to protest the Chinese Communist regime's brutal interference in cultural freedom. Pan Zaishu/The Epoch Times
Beijing’s latest national Mandarin language policy targets Hong Kong and Macao as indicated in a recently published article by the regime’s State Council. Subsequently, at least one radio station canceled its Cantonese programs. Public opinion raises concern over cultural extinction.
Haizhong Ning was a state employee and worked for a real estate company in China, before moving abroad and working as a reporter with a focus on Chinese affairs and politics for more than seven years.