The reporter learned from the Ministry of Education that the Ministry of Education and the National Language and Literacy Working Committee have recently released the Standard and Outline of Putonghua Proficiency Test for Primary and Middle School Students (for trial implementation) and the Chinese Character Radical Table. Among them, the Standard for Grading the Putonghua Proficiency Test of Primary and Middle School Students and the Test Outline divide the Putonghua proficiency of primary and middle school students into six levels, stipulate the content, scope, composition of test papers and scoring standards, etc., which is applicable to the assessment or evaluation monitoring of the general speaking proficiency of students in grade five and above in the compulsory education stage; The specification will be put into trial operation on December 15, 2022. The Standard and Outline of Putonghua Proficiency Test for Primary and Middle School Students is developed on the basis of extensive research and large-scale test. In accordance with the principles of applicability, communication and systematicness, it fully draws on the academic achievements and practical experience accumulated in Putonghua Proficiency Test for a long time, and strives to adapt to the mental characteristics and academic requirements of primary and middle school students, and combine with the Chinese curriculum standard and teaching practice of compulsory education, Effective connection with Putonghua proficiency test. The List of Chinese Characters Radicals is a revision of the first edition published in 2009. The revised edition focuses on improving the standardization and informatization level of the application of radicals. On the basis of maintaining the original 201 main radicals, it adds and fine tunes individual attached radicals, and gives some commonly used radical names and international codes for information processing of radicals. This standard is mainly applicable to the classification and retrieval of Chinese characters in lexicography, information processing and other fields, as well as Chinese character teaching and research. The newly revised List of Chinese Character Radicals will be implemented on December 15, 2022. The two language and character specifications are organized and developed by the Language and Character Application Research Institute of the Ministry of Education (Putonghua and Character Application Training and Testing Center of the State Language Commission), and are examined and approved by the Language and Character Specification Standards Examination and Approval Committee of the State Language Commission. (Reporter Wu Dan) (News Agency)