China has started a campaign to protect ethnic cultures

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In China a lot more languages than the most known, Cantonese and mandarin are spoken. Twenty-one ethnic groups had their own written language in China 2006.

China has the five last years collected more than a million ancient ethnic books and published more than 5,000 of them during the 10th "Five-Year" Plan period from 2001 to 2005. A massive catalogue of extant ancient books of the 55 ethnic minorities are being compiled. China publishes over 50 million copies of books in ethnic languages each year. There are also 99 newspapers and 223 periodicals published in 10 ethnic languages.
Source:Xinhua.com

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